NMLP P-045265 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Heat of the Day

Elizabeth Bowen · Jonathan Cape (London) · 1949

Avoid the Book Society issue: the Cape edition was also supplied to The Book Society (a book club), and dealers specifically distinguish the true Cape first impression from the Book Society version. Later Cape / Knopf reprints and modern reissues (Penguin, Vintage, Anchor) are later 'first thus.'

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-045265 for "The Heat of the Day" by Elizabeth Bowen (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045265, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).