Christopher Isherwood. The Memorial. Portrait of a Family. **SIGNED**. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, London,, 1932.

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.

Isherwood, Christopher. The Memorial: Portrait of a Family.. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1932.

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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.

Christopher Isherwood. 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; The Mortmere Stories limited signed edition 19/50 (contained in a solander box); People One Ought to Know, 1982 (contained in a solander box). Hogarth, 1932.

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