CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND by Isherwood, Christopher - 1976

Orphanos and Sylvester / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition. Leather. FINE. Letter 'X' of the 26 full leather copies which along with 4 personal copies accompanied 100 numbered copies of the signed, limited first edition. Signed by Isherwood and Bachardy. 339 pp. Brown morocco leather over boards, blind-ruled raised bands, gilt stamped spine lettering and title on green morocco, Navy topstain, blue speckled fore and tail edges. FINE in FINE cloth slipcase. Endpapers and frontispiece portrait created specially by Don Bachardy, Isherwood's longtime partner. A memoir in the third person, Christopher and His Kind traces the transformations in the author's identity as he comes through reluctant acceptance to joyful solidarity of his 'kinship with these freakish fellow tribesment and their distasteful customs' (p. 16). The first production by Ralph Sylvester and Stathis Orphanos, who would thereafter issue only original publications.