Early Sapphic Romance Novel The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen, 1928

Elizabeth Bowen

Book

[LGBTQ] Bowen, Elizabeth. The Hotel. New York: The Dial Press, 1928. First American Edition. Black cloth hardcovers black titling. Housed in its original speckled-orange dust jacket. Octavo. 294 pages total. The Hotel, Bowen's first novel, follows a group British tourists vacationing on the Italian Riviera during the 1920's. The story illuminates the emotional and social relationships that arise between well-established residents, more specifically a sapphic love affair between the protagonist and an older woman. The dust jacket is price clipped and has a tape repaired line across the front panel. Dust jacket spine bottom chipped off, and bears several tape repairs, corners are bumped. This book is in very good condition overall in a good only dusk jacket.

Item #19612

Price: $285.00