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Sale 480: Fine Literature - Fine Books in All Fields (#480) 05/24/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #189Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$312.50

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Sale 480: Fine Literature - Fine Books in All Fields (#480) 05/24/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Title:

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

Author:

Isherwood, Christopher

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Hogarth Press

Date Published:

1938

Description:

Blue cloth, spine lettered in black, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Issue.

Author's fourth book in the scarce first issue binding (spine lettered in black, later changed to gilt). First issue jacket with the publisher's logo design only on the lower spine (not the later Hogarth Library series stamping). Inscribed by Isherwood to American publisher Allan Covici. Woolmer 431.

Condition:

Jacket spine browned, light wear at edges; light edge wear to cloth, endpapers browned; book and jacket near fine.

Item#:

227041

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