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. The first edition first impression, in blue cloth boards, with black lettering to the spine (later copies had the titles in gilt), in the first issue dust jacket designed by Robert Medley, rear panel and rear flap blank.
Reference: Woolmer, Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917–1938, 431.
Octavo (book size 18.7x13cm), pp. 312. Dust jacket priced ‘7/6 NET’ to spine. Condition: Fine but for a couple of small spots to edge of block and offsetting to endpapers possibly caused by a newspaper clipping, which has also been mirrored on the inner flap of the dust jacket which apart from this is in fine condition Ref: 112537 Price: HK$ 4,500
‘That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands.’ - W. Somerset Maugham, after reading Lions and Shadows. The first edition first impression, in blue cloth boards, with black lettering to the spine (later copies had the titles in gilt), in the first issue dust jacket designed by Robert Medley, rear panel and rear flap blank.
Reference: Woolmer, Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917–1938, 431.
Octavo (book size 18.7x13cm), pp. 312. Dust jacket priced ‘7/6 NET’ to spine. Condition: Fine but for a couple of small spots to edge of block and offsetting to endpapers possibly caused by a newspaper clipping, which has also been mirrored on the inner flap of the dust jacket which apart from this is in fine condition Ref: 112537 Price: HK$ 4,500