The Demon Lover and other Stories. London; Cape, 1945. First Edition. Cream cloth boards in publisher’s dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Collects twelve stories including Pink May, Ivy Gripped the Steps, In the Square.

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was born in Dublin. She lived in the ancestral home, Bowen’s Court at Farahy, Co. Cork, and in 1907, she and her mother moved to England.

As a novelist and short story writer she is best known for fictional works that focused on life in wartime London and relationships among the upper-middle class.