BOWEN, Elizabeth. The Shelbourne: A Centre in Dublin Life for more than a Century. London: George G. Harrap. 1951. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the illustrated dust jacket by Norah McGuinness who illustrates the volume. A very good copy. The cloth just slightly discoloured at backstrip and boards leading in, minor, and the binding tight and square. Some mild spots to the textbook edges, very faint to the endpapers, else clean throughout, with numerous photographic plates and several line drawings. The dust jacket price-clipped, the spine panel a little toned and spotted, a few closed tears to edges and again some mild spots to the front and rear panels. Gently bumped. A bright copy.
An account, written deftly and with ‘inspired economy’, not only of the famous Shelbourne Hotel, but as the publishers describe, ‘the second city of the Empire, then the battleground of Irish independence and Irish civil strife, and eventually the capital of a republic’—Dublin. So revered was and indeed is the account that the hotel, still at the heart of the city, named a premium suite in Bowen’s honour.
BOWEN, Elizabeth. The Shelbourne: A Centre in Dublin Life for more than a Century. London: George G. Harrap. 1951. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the illustrated dust jacket by Norah McGuinness who illustrates the volume. A very good copy. The cloth just slightly discoloured at backstrip and boards leading in, minor, and the binding tight and square. Some mild spots to the textbook edges, very faint to the endpapers, else clean throughout, with numerous photographic plates and several line drawings. The dust jacket price-clipped, the spine panel a little toned and spotted, a few closed tears to edges and again some mild spots to the front and rear panels. Gently bumped. A bright copy.
An account, written deftly and with ‘inspired economy’, not only of the famous Shelbourne Hotel, but as the publishers describe, ‘the second city of the Empire, then the battleground of Irish independence and Irish civil strife, and eventually the capital of a republic’—Dublin. So revered was and indeed is the account that the hotel, still at the heart of the city, named a premium suite in Bowen’s honour.
