Lions and Shadows - An Education in the Twenties -
Christopher Isherwood
1938 - Leonard &, London - First Edition, First Impression
The first of Isherwood’s fictional biographies. 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.
‘That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands.’ - W. Somerset Maugham, after reading Lions and Shadows. Provenance: Formerly owned by the New York based avant-garde (or abstract expressionist) artist Alfonso Ossorio (1916-90), who, like Isherwood, also moved to the US just before WWII, they had many friends in common after the war, Ossorio worked with and assisted in promoting Jackson Pollock and others. Small contemporary New York booksellers label to rear endpaper.
The first edition first impression, in blue cloth boards, with black lettering to the spine (later copies had the titles in gilt), in the first issue dust jacket designed by Robert Medley, rear panel and rear flap blank.
Reference: Woolmer, Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917–1938, 431.
Octavo (book size 18.7x13cm), pp. 312. Dust jacket priced ‘7/6 NET’ to spine. Condition: Fine but for the usual offsetting to endpapers, and gentl foxing to first and last few pages, i near fine dust jacket, , light wear to corners and spie ends, toning to spine. Ref: 112191 Price: HK$
‘That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands.’ - W. Somerset Maugham, after reading Lions and Shadows. Provenance: Formerly owned by the New York based avant-garde (or abstract expressionist) artist Alfonso Ossorio (1916-90), who, like Isherwood, also moved to the US just before WWII, they had many friends in common after the war, Ossorio worked with and assisted in promoting Jackson Pollock and others. Small contemporary New York booksellers label to rear endpaper.
The first edition first impression, in blue cloth boards, with black lettering to the spine (later copies had the titles in gilt), in the first issue dust jacket designed by Robert Medley, rear panel and rear flap blank.
Reference: Woolmer, Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917–1938, 431.
Octavo (book size 18.7x13cm), pp. 312. Dust jacket priced ‘7/6 NET’ to spine. Condition: Fine but for the usual offsetting to endpapers, and gentl foxing to first and last few pages, i near fine dust jacket, , light wear to corners and spie ends, toning to spine. Ref: 112191 Price: HK$