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Christopher Isherwood | First Editions
1904 - 1986
See below our stock of Christopher Isherwood First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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'The London Magazine'. Edited by John Lehmann, Complete Vol.6, in 12 issues, 1959.
London, William Heinemann Ltd, Printed at the Shenval Press. 1959. [Literary magazine] Bound volume collecting twelve issues (the complete year, 1959), with the general index not included in the single issues. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Red buckram, lettered in gilt to spine, institutional blind-stamp to rear cover. Contents clean, one..... More
Exhumations. Stories | Articles | Verses.
London: Methuen & Co., 1966. [Miscellany] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[12] 254 [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge grey. With the grey dust-jacket illustrated by Don Bachardy, priced at 30s. Light rubbing and chipping to jacket edges, with a closed tear and crease..... More
A Meeting by the River.
London: Methuen, 1967. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.160. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in two colours, with the photographic dust-jacket by Ray Dean, priced at 21s Minor offeset to endpapers, otherwise a particularly fine, fresh copy. More
My Guru and his Disciple.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1980. [Spiritual Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 338 [6]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Don Bachardy, priced at £8.50. Slight discolouration to spine, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. The story of Isherwood's complex pupil-teacher..... More
Prater Violet.
London: Methuen and Co. Limited, 1946. 8vo. Publisher's violet cloth, slightly rubbed, neat name to fly leaf. Dustwrapper with one small chip to upper, spine a little browned. Near fine. FIRST EDITION. More
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