LIONS AND SHADOWS: An Education in the Twenties
by Isherwood, Christopher
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first American edition. Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropout at large in London's bohemia of the 1920s. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. Minor foxing to the endpapers and the dust jacket, which is a bit browned, more so along the spine and folds, and lightly edgeworn. A very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66191
- Title
- LIONS AND SHADOWS: An Education in the Twenties
- Author
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Literature, Autobiography, Memoirs, London, Christopher Isherwood
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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