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Isherwood Christopher. The Memorial. Hogarth Press 1932, 1932.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Description: VG in publishers orange wove cloth slightly (evenly) faded spine with blue lettering, Foyles Lending Library stamp to endpaper. 1st edition, 1st issue. ISBN B00087G30G
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pink linen (mixed weave of red and cream) titled in turquoise on spine. Top edge blue. Light sunning and a slight lean to spine; a few spots to covers; mark (remainder?) to lower edge of text block. With a card from Boots Book-Lovers' Library tipped onto preliminary blank. An early and rather tentative semi-autoniographical novel aboiut a gay man in London and Europe betweenn the wars,
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Christopher Isherwood. The Memorial. The Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$102.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition first impression in VG++ condition. Previous owner's inscription to front end paper, rest of pages clean, binding firm. No jacket. Boards clean, edge wear, and marks to corners. Please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Isherwood (Christopher).. The Memorial: Portrait of a Family. Hogarth Press,, 1932.
Price: US$107.75 + shipping
Description: Some slight foxing, but a nice copy, name on fly-leaf First Edition, Late Binding, ochre cloth lettered in blue.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Christopher Isherwood. The Memorial, Portrait of a Family. The Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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 of fading to back strip, and minor shelf wear to spine tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Isherwood (Christopher).. The Memorial: Portrait of a Family. Hogarth Press,, 1932.
Price: US$134.69 + shipping
Description: Spine browned, tiny mark at bottom edge of upper cover and some foxing, mainly of end-papers, but a nice copy
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 1st.ed.publisher's orange cloth-title in blue-first issue state of binding-no markings-tight-straight-no foxing. fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4 Volumes, by and or related to Christopher Isherwood. The Memorial. Published by the Hogarth Press in 1932. This is a first printing in the original cloth with blue titles. A fairly clean and tight very good copy with the spine and very edges being sunned as is often found with this title. The jacket is complete with some minor rubbing, mostly to the top edge. The spine is a little darker, some minor other wear, and with the original price of seven shillings and sixpence. Claude J. Summers p Christopher Isherwood. Published in 1980 br Frederick Unger, NY Christopher Isherwood - Exhumations, stories, articles, verses. Published by Methuen, London in 1966. Christopher Isherwood - My Guru and His Disciple Published by Methuen, London in 1980.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Pink cloth; illustrated dust jacket by John Banting. Spine just a little sunned; neat ownership signature; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket very gently rubbed along the edges, otherwise fine. The author's second novel. From the library of Otis Skinner Blodget, with his bookplate laid-in. A lovely copy.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$499.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression (one of only 1,222 copies) of this "remarkably acute and assured novel about the pre- and post-war generations, seen from both sides of the divide" (ODNB) in the uncommon first-state binding. Crown 8vo (183 x 118mm): 294pp. Publisher's pale pink coarsely woven linen, spine lettered in blue; mid-brown dust jacket illustrated by Jack Banting, printed in blue and priced 7/6. About Fine, tightly bound and clean throughout (apparently unread); jacket virtually pristine. Woolmer 294. According to the Literary Encyclopedia, the death of Isherwood's father in the First World War and the deep, lifelong mourning into which his mother fell provide much of the background for the family dynamics of Isherwood's early novels, including The Memorial, in which Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father and his envy for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships. The story is imbued with Freudian family analysis, centering on the conflict between mother and son, and rebellion against the stifling English class society into which Isherwood was born (a withering branch of a distinguished family tree that had roots in Cheshire extending back to the Civil War). In his early career Isherwood adopted the high-Modernist style of the preceding generation of English novelists, particularly Virginia Woolf (whose Hogarth Press brought out The Memorial) and D. H. Lawrence. In The Memorial, Isherwood experimented with the novel form, recombining the chapters into a non-sequential chronology. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 294, crown 8vo, original (secondary binding) of blue linen, backstrip lettered in blue, a couple of faint spots to turn-ins, top edge blue, some incredibly faint spots to fore-edge, dustjacket designed by John Banting, a little fading to the backstrip panel, very good. (Woolmer 294)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
ISHERWOOD, Christopher. The Memorial. The Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1932. Pink linen with blue lettering to spine. VG; boards are clean with some edge wear, and marks to corners. VG un-clipped dust jacket; slightly edgeworn at top of spine. Published: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932
Seller: Roy Turner Books, Stockport, United Kingdom
ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. Memorial. Portrait of a Family. , 1932.
Price: US$546.25 + shipping
Description: ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. The Memorial. Portrait of a Family. London: Hogarth Press, 1932. 294 p. Cloth. In a very nice dust jacket, lightly rubbed at extremities, tiny chip missing from top edge of rear panel. First edition.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Isherwood, Christopher. THE MEMORIAL: PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Description: First Issue. Octavo; pink and white cloth, with titles stamped in blue on the spine; 294pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, imperceptibly toned at the spine with two faint splash marks to the same; Near Fine, without chips, tears or the usual heavy rubbing. An attractive copy of the author's third book and second novel.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. The Memorial - Portrait of a Family.. The Hogarth Press, London., 1932.
Price: US$737.59 + shipping
Description: First edition. First binding of pink linen lettered in blue. Octavo. 294 pages.1222 copies were printed.Edges lightly spotted, otherwise fine in near-fine dustwrapper, designed by John Banting, with a hint of fading to the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
ISHERWOOD, Christopher. THE MEMORIAL. Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$846.62 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state binding. Original red and white coarsely woven cloth with blue titles, in the original pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a very near fine dustwrapper which is very crisp, with just a shade of fading to the spine and a very light ring mark to the upper cover. Striking dustjacket design by Jack Banting. As with most of Isherwood's novels, The Memorial is heavily autobiographical. The book opens in the Scrivens' Chelsea mews house with Mary Scriven organising musical concerts with the help of Eric (largely based on Isherwood), who, oppressed by his own mother Lily (Isherwood's mother, Kathleen), comes to regard Mary as a mother figure, as he and his generation struggle to come to terms with the aftermath of the Great War.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Isherwood, Christopher. The Memorial. Portrait of a Family. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Pink linen. Spine slightly tanned, a near-fine copy in dust jacket. Woolmer 294.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Isherwood, Christopher. The Memorial; Portrait of Family. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 294pp; pink linen printed in blue. One of only 1222 copies, this one has been signed and dated by Isherwood (1964) on the front flyleaf. Woolmer 294. Slight lean, small stain on rear flyleaf, else just about fine in a bright, unfaded dust jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the spine.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ signed by Isherwood on the title page. Pink cloth/linen, spine is slightly sunned. Blue top stain. Binding tight. Octavo. 5 X 7" 294 pps. Blue letters on spine. Missing dust jacket.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue binding. Fine in near fine dust jacket designed by John Bantin. A very nice copy of the author's second book, according to his bibliographer one of 1222 copies printed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Isherwood's second novel, the first composed in his signature semi-autobiographical method. This is one of 1,222 copies, here in the uncommon first state pink and white cloth binding. Woolmer 294. Octavo. Original pink and white cloth, spine lettered in blue, top edge blue. With dust jacket, designed by John Banting. Spine slightly toned, tiny marks to cloth, edges, and outer leaves, traces of bookplate removal to front free endpaper; spine of jacket lightly sunned and marked, else sharp and unclipped: a near-fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Christopher Isherwood on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Banting. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Uncommon signed. Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy of his father's roguish friend who survived the war. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the novel in which a dazzlingly talented young writer found his literary voice, the book in which Isherwood became Isherwood.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Christopher Isherwood first edition novels in James Brockman binding: The Memorial, 1932; Mr. Norris Changes Trains, 1935; Lions and Shadows, 1938; Goodbye to Berlin, 1939, 1st UK editions, half titles, portrait frontispiece to Lions and Shadows, a few light spots, all edges gilt, recent full morocco gilt by James Brockman, Oxford, 8vo, together with The Mortmere Stories, by Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward, introduced by Katherine Bucknell, illustrated by Graham Crowley, Enitharmon Press, 1994, limited signed edition 19/50 (contained in a solander box), 8vo, and People One Ought to Know, illustrated by Sylvain Mangeot, 1st edition, 1982, also contained in a solander box. A beautiful set of Isherwood's most important novels in unique binding.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands