ISHERWOOD, Christopher. LIONS AND SHADOWS  An Education in the Twenties. Bound in sky blue cloth with black lettering to spine. Photo frontispiece of the author, in1921. 12mo, pp. 312. Published in 1938 by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, at the Hogarth Press, London. This is the first edition in first state binding.

Christopher Isherwood (William Bradshaw) (1904-1986) wrote the novels "Goodbye to Berlin", and "Sally Bowles", which inspired the musical "Cabaret" (1966) and the film version (1972). He collaborated with W. H. Auden on three prose-verse plays and emigrated to California to work as a scriptwriter. He became an American citizen in 1946. "Lions and Shadows" is the author's fifth novel, which he describes as an autobiographical fiction. It attempts to describe the life of a typical young writer of the Twenties; his problems, his aims, his ideas. "Many of Mr. Isherwood's colleagues and personal friends appear, sometimes under thin disguises which the reader-detective will, no doubt, find easy to penetrate." (from the dj flap).

This is a near fine copy of this elusive title, the only blemishes being some light top edge soiling, and some off-setting on the endpapers from the jacket flaps. It is encased within the scarce dust jacket, designed by Richard Medley, which is unclipped, although a little crinkled at the top edge, a touch darkened at the spine, and a trifle creased at the folds; else in very good, or better, condition.

Price:  $535 Cdn./$400 US                                               (#8818)

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