Prater Violet
by Isherwood, Christopher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition, First Printing.
Small Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 130 mm), 127, [1] pages, in gray cloth, in an illustrated dust jacket by Baldwin Hawes.
Christopher Isherwood's novel about the making of a film, based on his experiences as a screen writer. But it's much more than that: it's a meditation on the threat of fascism and the increasingly dire situation in Europe in the 1930s.
This is the true first edition; the U.K. edition followed in 1946.
CONDITION: Toning to extremities and to pages (printed on cheap wartime paper). The dust jacket is price-clipped, soiled, and has some small tears and nicks, especially at both ends of the spine. Very Good/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114
- Title
- Prater Violet
- Author
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction; Performing Arts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Soiled
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- Spine
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