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Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

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Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

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Description

Title: Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
Author: Isherwood, Christopher
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.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Date Published: 1938

Condition

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

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Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

Name: Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
SKU: 11618287
Price: 250 USD
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