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Christopher Isherwood. Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties. The Hogarth Press, 1938.
Price: US$23.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good copy in blue cloth which is rubbed with light soiling. Ex libris bookplate to the back of the front board. previous owner's name on the fep
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, tywyn, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Isherwood's autobiography of his early years. Isherwood was a noted dramatist, author, playwright and more. 312pp. Blue cloth boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spotting to upper rear board. Some soiling to spine cloth
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 312 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth without dustwrapper, else good copy. (75497).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.33 + shipping
Description: A little scattered light foxing; dust jacket spine browned, with loss at head & foot and brown tape repairs on verso. Book appears to be the 1st edition, i.e. dated 1938 on title page, blue cloth with black lettering, but is in a Hogarth Crown dust jacket. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition/1st impression. Blue cloth still bright with fading on the spine without inscription
Seller: Mike Conry, WORCESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$56.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1938 First Edition, First Impression. Size 16mo, 312 pages. First State Binding of Blue cloth covered boards with black titles to the spine. Book condition very good, corners spine ends and hinges rubbed, spine a little sunned, toning on end-papers else contents very clean. With frontispiece photograph of Isherwood in 1921. Autobiography of Isherwood's early life and education. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. Lions and Shadows. An education in the twenties. 1st edition.. , 1938.
Price: US$63.70 + shipping
Description: 312pp Hogarth Press, London, 1938. 1st edition. Spine very slightly rubbed, otherwise VG without dust jacket.
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state, with blue boards and black lettering. Frontispiece portrait. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 431. 3,580 copies Blue cloth lettered in black. Faint foxing to first few pages, extremities lightly rubbed. Very good Frontispiece portrait. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, first state, with blue boards and black lettering.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Isherwood, Christopher. LIONS & SHADOWS. New Directions, 1938.
Price: US$75.40 + shipping
Description: LIONS & SHADOWS, The Hogarth Press, 1938, first edition, light wear and rubbing to the fore edge corner tips and spine extremities, some fading to the spine, else a near vg copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$94.22 + shipping
Description: Woolmer 431: blue cloth printed in black; one of 3580 copies. Spine a little foxed & bumped. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Dust Jacket Only. Good with DJ torn in half, minor tears, scuffs to edges. [First Edition.]
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Christopher Isherwood. Lions and Shadows. Hogarth Press, Leonard & Virginia Woolf, London, 1938.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK printing in second state binding. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering in a dust jacket with 7/6 price on the spine. Edge-wear, the jacket toned and chipped at the corners and spine ends, the book with a stain lower spine and corresponding endpaper gutter; the text unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
ISHERWOOD Christopher. Lions and Shadows. An Education in the Twenties. , 1938.
Price: US$206.39 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece portrait of the author. First edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth, lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket. London, Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Near contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, faint partial offsetting to endpapers, Jenner's bookseller's label to rear pastedown, light wear to extremities, jacket worn and unevenly toned with minor loss to tips of spine panel and corners, still a good copy overall. Woolmer 431, one of 3580 copies printed.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$214.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. TRUE FIRST EDITION. First issue, bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine (later printings had gilt lettering to spine). Paper dustjacket printed in brown, designed by Robert Medley. Limited to 3580 copies printed. Published March 1938. With "Colonial Cloth Edition" stamped to ffep (tiny purple ink stamp). Frontispiece b&w photographic portrait of Isherwood in 1921. NOTE: From the estate collection of Australian Ballet Company dancer Laurie Rentoul (nephew of both famed Australian illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite & her author sister Annie Rattray Rentoul), with his ownership signature in black ink to upper corner of ffep. Printed in Great Britain. Light browning to endpapers, very minor spotting to top edge of book block, small brown sticker to middle of dustjacket spine, barely noticeable shelfwear, otherwise an exceptionally nice clean tight solid hardcover copy in publisher's original unclipped pictorial dustjacket. The dustjacket is now protected in a removable clear Bro-dart cover. 312pp. RARE.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. Lions and Shadows.. London: Hogarth Press, 1938., 1938.
Price: US$224.59 + shipping
Description: First edition, first binding. Spine a bit discoloured o/w a better than very good but not quite near fine copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. Lions and Shadows.. The Hogarth Press, London, 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 312 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition; first binding. Some light foxing and browning to preliminaries; else a near fine copy in a beautiful jacket with just a touch of browning to the spine. Very uncommon in dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. Lions And Shadows. The Hogarth Press, London, 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue cloth lettered in black on the spine. Isherwood's fictionalized account of his passing out of Boarding School, attending and leaving Cambridge, and the struggle to find himself, find his voice and indeed, find his identity. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Lovely cover art by Medley. The front panel of this copy shows very well. The spine has some minor rubbing and the rear panel has some small spotting stains. Previous owner book-plate to the front free endpaper. Woolmer, 431. Very Good / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$318.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the true first edition, published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in March 1938 - with the first state attractive pictorial dustwrapper designed by R. Medley. With a photographic portrait frontispiece showing the author entitled 'Myself, in 1921'. A total of 3,580 copies were printed, but some of these were bound up in the second-state with gilt tiles to the spine of the book and a plain printed Hogarth Crown Library dustwrapper. (Woolmer 431) ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with black titles to the spine. The boards are clean, but there is a small patch of fading on the back board. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, with some slight patchy fading to the spine. Corners slightly rubbed but not bumped. Binding square with no reading lean. Spine tight. Page block edges clean without any of the usual foxing. Internally also very good with a contemporaneous owner's name and date in pencil to the top of the front free endpaper: J. R. Whitehead, April 1941'. The interior pages are very clean, with just small areas of very sporadic light foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a very good grey dustwrapper, illustrated in dark-brown, with the publisher's price of 7/6 net printed on the spine. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some light rubbing and wear to the edges, mainly at the top and tail of the spine. No serious creases or tears, but please note that there is some splitting along the folds of the spine which have been neatly reinforced with tape on the reverse. Spine of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and browned. Dustwrapper otherwise bright. ***188mm x 130mm. 312 pages. ***'This new book, by the author of "Mr. Norris Changes Trains", is part autobiography, part fiction: it attempts to describe the life of a typical young writer of the twenties, his problems, his aims, his ideas. Beginning at a public school, it goes on to Cambridge, where Mr. Isherwood and his friend "Chalmers" inhabited the fantastic world of "Mortmere." There are reminiscences of the London musical bohemia, of tutoring in expensive houses, of the author's brief career as a medical student. Many of Mr. Isherwood's colleagues and personal friends appear, sometimes under thin disguises which the reader-detective will, no doubt, find easy to penetrate. The title, "Lions and Shadows", is also that of Mr. Isherwood's first and never-to-be-published novel.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 - 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include "Goodbye to Berlin" (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret (1966); "A Single Man" (1964), adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009; and "Christopher and His Kind" (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement"'. At Repton, his boarding school in Derbyshire, Isherwood met his lifelong friend Edward Upward, with whom he invented an imaginary English village called Mortmere, as related in his fictional autobiography, "Lions and Shadows" (1938). He went up to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as a history scholar, wrote jokes and limericks on his second year Tripos and was asked to leave without a degree in 1925. (Wiki) ***A first impression of the true first edition, published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in March 1938 - with the first state attractive pictorial dustwrapper designed by R. Medley, rare to find in the original fragile pre-war dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of the works of Christopher Isherwood, the Bloomsbury Group and The Hogarth Press. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Christopher Isherwood. Lions and Shadows. HOGARTH PRESS, London, 1938.
Price: US$350.36 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: In 1938 the legendary Hogarth Press published the first of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical writings, Lions and Shadows. The book evokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as Isherwood knew it and describes his life as a tutor, a medical student, and a struggling writer. Above all, Lions and Shadows is a captivating account of a young novelist's development in the literary culture of 1920s Cambridge and London and of his experiences as he forged lifelong friendships with his peers W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Edward Upward. - CONDITION & DESCRIPTION: A beautiful facsimile dust-jacket accompanies this book. Produced from a first impression [1938] issue. It has the price of 7/6 NET to the spine. Also has the 'Woolf' colophon. A wolf's head in a circle. Housed in a durable plastic sleeve for future protection. - Blue cloth with black lettering to the spine. Colour is a little patchy but the boards are clean and remain firmly attached to page block. Frayed cloth along the spine edges and faded colour to the extremities. All housed beneath the accompanying dustjacket. - Front and rear blank endpages are adhered to the inner boards. [this was often done to strengthen the page block]. 312 pages are browned and foxed throughout. All pages are present. - E N D - Postage includes full insurance and will offer a signed for service in the UK and Signed and Tracked where possible abroad [outside the UK].Our orders are shipped within 1 or 2 business days. - Thanks for your interest and I hope you like the book enough to buy it.
Seller: Modern_First_Printings, EAST SUSSEX, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A light spot on the spine, near fine in very good dustwrapper with some slight stains, shallow nicks at the crown, and some internal tissue reinforcement at the folds.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Issue. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in black; photographic frontispiece; 312pp. A touch of minor offset to endpapers, else Fine and clean throughout. The gray dustjacket is lightly toned at the panels and flap folds, and slightly darker at the spine; light rubbing at the extremities, with some creasing at the spine ends; Very Good+. The author's fictionalized account of his early years as a writer.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
ISHERWOOD, Christopher. LIONS AND SHADOWS An Education in the Twenties. Hogarth Press, 1938.
Price: US$420.43 + shipping
Description: First edition. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered black, in the pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper indeed, light toning to the spine and some wear to the spine ends. Part autobiography, part fiction in which "Many of Mr. Isherwood's colleagues and personal friends appear, sometimes under thin disguises"
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. Lions and Shadows.. London, Hogarth Press, 1938., 1938.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in black. Dust jacket designed by Richard Medley (unclipped). Very good-fine. A.L. Rowse's copy with his ink initials on the front pastedown.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$468.22 + shipping
Description: Very nice copy in slightly soiled and chipped dust-wrapper designed by Robert Medley; dust-wrapper has very slight loss at bottom right-hand corner of upper panel, barely affecting design. From the library of Ruthven Todd, with his pencilled autograph signature on the fly-leaf. Scarce in the dust-wrapper
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$477.77 + shipping
Description: 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. Woolmer 431. 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.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A little offsetting on the endpapers from the flaps, else about fine in spine-toned, very good dust jacket wrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. Lions and Shadows.. London Hogarth Press, 1938.
Price: US$574.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; frontispiece portrait; publisher's blue cloth titles to spine in black. With the Medley dust jacket. Foxing early and late, partial browning to endpapers, spine gently rolled and slightly mottled. A very good copy in the rubbed and somewhat tanned dust jacket with an ink price notation on the spine. Withal an attractive example of one of the author's non-Berlin books.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Publisher's blue cloth with black spine lettering. Light offsetting to eps. Mild rubbing to board edges. Slightly edgeworn DJ is toned at spine. This was the copy of artist Alfonso Ossorio, with his ownership signature to half-title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.72 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue binding of blue cloth lettered in black. Octavo. 304 pages. Frontispiece photograph of the author in 1921. Loosely inserted is a Group Theatre bookmark which advertises Auden and Isherwood's On the Frontier.Early (1942) ownership signature on front free endpaper. Free endpapers partially tanned as usual. Edges slightly spotted. Very good indeed in near-fine dustwrapper, designed by Robert Medley, with a small faint spot to spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blue cloth, lettered in black. 8vo. First edition. SIGNED on the front free endpaper by Isherwood. 312 pp. Near fine, in very good + dust jacket with light staining and small chips. Minor rubbing to extremities. Endpapers age toned. Part autobiography, part fiction of the life of the young writer in 1920s London.
Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 312pp; blue cloth stamped in black. First issue; one of 3580 copies, an unknown number of which were issued later as part of Hogarth Crown Library series. Woolmer 431. Offsetting to endpapers; fine in a very lightly used dust jacket, spine sunned just a shade and a scratch on the rear panel.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, frontispiece, blue cloth, dust jacket. Rear inner hinge slightly strained, otherwise a very fine copy. Rear inner hinge slightly strained, otherwise a very fine copy. First edition. Limited to 3580 copies printed. Woolmer 431.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 431. 3,580 copies Blue cloth lettered in black. Gray paper dust jacket by Robert Medley. Some internal foxing else fine in fine dust jacket
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. Lions and Shadows depicts "the first stages in a lifelong educationâ"the education of a novelist. A young man living at a certain period in a certain European country, is subjected to a certain kind of environment, certain stimuli, certain influences. That the young man happens to be myself is only of secondary importance" (Preface). "His 'Annus Mirabilis' was 1935 with Mr. Norris Changes Trains and his autobiography, Lions and Shadows⦠The most gifted novelist since Greene and Waugh" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 86).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Isherwood, Christopher. Lions and Shadows. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938.
Price: US$955.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - An Education in the Twenties -. First edition and a rare signed copy. Gift dedication on front endpaper to his friend Jeremy signed by Isherwood and dated May 1961. 8vo, blue cloth boards with black titles on spine. 312pp illustrated with frontis portrait of Isherwood in 1921. Tear to spine at front board and some edge wear. Inner book very good and clean.
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Isherwood, Christopher. Lions and Shadows. Hogarth Press, 1938.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Flatsigned by Christopher Isherwood on the title page. Well-kept clean copy in bright blue covers. Clear black lettering to spine. Name written neatly on endpage. Spine with mild cant. No original jacket, but now in a clear plastic wrapper. With newspaper article on Isherwood in Hollywood from 1945. Rare and hard to find as signed copy. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, Ca library.
Seller: Eve's Book Garden, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Hardcover in blue cloth lettered in black, the scarce First issue binding, Very Fine as New condition; dust jacket FINE condition with no noticeable defects, protected in archival clear plastic dust cover protector
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.