1979, ISBN: 0571113451

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780571113453], Near Fine, [PU: Faber and Faber, London], LITERATURE; LITERARY CRITICISM; BRIAN FINNEY; CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD; FIRST EDITIONS, Literary Criticism|European|English, I… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780571113453], Near Fine, [PU: Faber and Faber, London], LITERATURE; LITERARY CRITICISM; BRIAN FINNEY; CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD; FIRST EDITIONS, Literary Criticism|European|English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Jacket, First impression ot the true first edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ***Near fine in dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly rubbed and bumped. No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. No inscriptions. ***In a near fine green photo-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £8.50 net. Edges of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Tiny loss to tail of spine of dustwrapper. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. 222mm x 144mm. 336 pages including appendix, notes, critical bibliography and index to the rear. ***'Christopher Isherwood has traditionally been associated with the group of politically committed writers who came to prominence in the 1930s - Auden, Spender and Upward in particular. His best known books are his two Berlin novels of the 1930s which were subsequently transformed into the stage play, I Am A Camera, and the musical, Cabaret. In fact Isherwood had been writing books now for fifty years and some of his finest work has appeared in the last two decades. Brian Finney's book, the first critical biography of Isherwood, explores the ambiguous relationship between fact and fiction in his novels, plays and works of biography and autobiography, a relationship that continues to tantalize Isherwood's large following of readers. ***It was undertaken with the friendly co-operation of Isherwood and draws extensively on unpublished letters and journals as well as interviews with hm and with his contemporaries. It traces the effects on his work of Isherwood's evolution from a militant atheist to a pacifist Vedantist; from a rebel against the English establishment to what he calls an 'Anglo-Californian' living happily in exile; and from a secretive member of the homosexual minority to a militant champion of homosexual rights. ' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very nice bright clean condition. ***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., Books<

1979, ISBN: 0571113451

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780571113453], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Faber & Faber, London], CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Jacket, This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780571113453], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Faber & Faber, London], CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Jacket, This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the wrapper.Price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Clean copy internally,8vo 336pp First Edition 1st Impression, Books<