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Christopher Isherwood - The Memorial, Portrait of a Family

Title: The Memorial, Portrait of a Family
Description: London, The Hogarth Press, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally lovely copy of the first edition of Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the first issue binding. One of only 1,222 copies of this first impression produced.With a loosely inserted slip from The Hogarth Press, dated 1932, and indicating this as a review copy.A first edition from Christopher Isherwood, the prominent novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist associated with modernism and the gay liberation movement, and best known for the novels 'Goodbye to Berlin' and 'A Single Man&apos.A wonderful copy of Isherwood's second published novel, relaying the story of a family's disintegration in the days following the First World War, and based upon Isherwood's own family and life experiences. In the publisher's original cloth first issue binding; pink linen with blue lettering to spine. Externally, lovely. A touch of fading to back strip, and minor shelf wear to spine tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

Keywords: Goodbye to Berlin a single man first world war a single man None

Price: GBP 90.00 = appr. US$ 128.52 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 849F34

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