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Lions and Shadows.: An Education in the Twenties.
by ISHERWOOD, Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1938. First edition, first impression, first issue. In this lightly fictionalized, "sly, self-deprecating, and very funny autobiography... Isherwood reviewed his youth from the lofty eminence of thirty-four" (ODNB). The first issue has black spine lettering rather than gilt and has the grey and brown dust jacket, which was subsequently reprinted in blue and purple for the Hogarth Crown Library series in 1943. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Spine lightly faded and bumped at head, contents clean; jacket spine with toning, a small puncture, and shallow wear at head, edges with a couple of nicks, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Woolmer 431.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170248
- Title
- Lions and Shadows.
- Author
- ISHERWOOD, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,
- Date Published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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