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The book itself clean and sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bowen's celebrated fifth novel — first published in London by Gollancz in 1935 — unfolds across a single February day, as two children wait out the hours in a Paris house while a long central section reaches back to recover the passionate, ruinous history of the boy's parents. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-064\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bowen, Elizabeth","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459952595105,"sku":"TO-2026-064","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-064_01.jpg?v=1784602855"},{"product_id":"to-2026-075","title":"This Life I've Loved (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIELD, Isobel (\"Belle\" Osbourne Strong). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis Life I've Loved.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLATER PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York \u0026amp; Toronto: Longmans, Green \u0026amp; Co., 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8vo. 353 pp. Photo-illustrated plates; the frontispiece reproduces a portrait of Field by Albert Herter. Orange cloth, issued without dust jacket; near fine with darkening to the spine. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page to the actress Judith Anderson: \"To Judith Anderson, as kind and generous as she is great and glorious. 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