Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939
by Isherwood, Christopher
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374312567
- ISBN 13
- 9780374312565
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Farrar,Strauss & Giroux, 1977 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life - from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels?and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret. It includes accounts of his experiences in Greece (c. 1933) on an island off Euboea with Frances King and his friends.(pp 133-146) which was fictionalized in "Down There on a Visit" 339p.Crisp, tight unmarked copy, but ffep is missing, else fine.
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042073
- Title
- Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939
- Author
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374312567
- ISBN 13
- 9780374312565
- Publisher
- Farrar,Strauss & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD FRANCES KING MODERN GREECE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Greece - Foreign Residents;
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...