THE MEMORIAL. Portrait of a Family. by Isherwood, Christopher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good. 1988. Hardcover. 0374520674 . 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.75 Inches; 296 pages .

Norfolk Ct: New Directions, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 294; burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A British family and the costs of the first World War.

Hogarth Press, 1960. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (top edge dust-stained - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (small nicks at edges and centre of spine - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 294 (fore-edge lightly spotted; no inscriptions).

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Binding with just a bit of wear, spine sunned, near fine.

Paperback. Very Good.

Norfolk, Ct: New Directions, 1946. Reprint of 1932 Hogarth edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Crimson cloth. Fine in VG dj. Reprint of 1932 Hogarth edition. 1 vols. 8vo.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 294. First published in England in 1932.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5.5". None. 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'.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… Read More

London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. Bound in the publishers original fine weave orange coloured cloth with contrasting blue title lettering to spine. This is the first impression of the first edition and is rare thus. All pages are present and correct with no inscriptions and are tightly bound. Book sits soild and square with all corners sharp. Blue title lettering to spine remains sharp and definite. A very clean copy inside and out. Housed in the atmospheric John Banting designed dustwrapper with publishers printed price intact on front inside flap. Vivid and surreal bright blue illustration on brown coloured paper couple together to form a most eyecatching and enigmatic dustwrapper. Now protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. Light wear and signs of handling commensurate with age but a bright example of the dustwrapper which remains in very good condition. A most presentable copy of Christopher Isherwood's excellent second novel.. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good.… Read More

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first issue binding. Topstain slightly faded, else fine in fine dust jacket designed by John Bantin. An exceptionally bright copy of the author's second book, according to his bibliographer one of 1222 copies printed.