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Lions and Shadows - An Education in the Twenties - Christopher Isherwood

1938 - Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London - First Edition, First Impression
First edition of 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. 
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The Razor’s Edge - A Novel - William Somerset Maugham

1944 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First English Edition
A finely bound first edition of one of Maugham's most popular works, twice adapted for the big screen, the first of which was Oscar-winning starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney and John Payne.

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The Razor’s Edge’ follows the life of Larry Darrell, a pilot in World War I who longs to discover some transcendent meaning for human life, and for his life in particular.

Maugham himself appears in the novel, and there is some debate as to whether Darrell is a thinly disguised portrait of Christopher Isherwood.
 
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