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Isherwood, Christopher Collection of 12

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Isherwood, Christopher Collection of 12

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Isherwood, Christopher Collection of 12 volumes, all presentation copies inscribed to William ("Woods") Gray: Goodbye to Berlin. 1954, fourth impression, dust-jacket; Mr Norris changes trains. 1956, sixth impression, dust-jacket; Lions and Shadows. Norfolk: New Directions, 1947, dust-jacket; Prater Violet. New York, 1946, second edition, dust-jacket; another copy. 1945, fourth printing; The memorial. 1960, new edition, dust-jacket; All the conspirators. 1966, reprint, dust-jacket; Down there on a visit. New York. 1946, second edition, dust-jacket; Exhumations. New York, 1966, dust-jacket; A single man. New York. 1964, dust-jacket; A meeting by the river. 1967, dust-jacket; Kathleen and Frank. New York, 1971, original cloth bindings, 8vo (12) Together with Five autograph postcards signed ("Christopher Isherwood" and "Chris") to Bill Gray, expressing his enjoyment from their recent meeting, recommending Pain, Sex and Time by Gerald Heard, referring to the death of Gerald Hamilton and noting the terms under which he speaks to literary societies ("I either do that sort of thing for free (when a cause I'm interested in is involved) or for an enormous sum of money"). The writer also notes that, in interviews, his "'honesty' and 'sincerity' is only too often concealed aggression". The final card relates to the death of Chester Kallman; five Airmail postcards, 145 Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica, California, 2 August 1967 - 26 January 1975

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Isherwood, Christopher Collection of 12 volumes, all presentation copies inscribed to William ("Woods") Gray: Goodbye to Berlin. 1954, fourth impression, dust-jacket; Mr Norris changes trains. 1956, sixth impression, dust-jacket; Lions and Shadows. Norfolk: New Directions, 1947, dust-jacket; Prater Violet. New York, 1946, second edition, dust-jacket; another copy. 1945, fourth printing; The memorial. 1960, new edition, dust-jacket; All the conspirators. 1966, reprint, dust-jacket; Down there on a visit. New York. 1946, second edition, dust-jacket; Exhumations. New York, 1966, dust-jacket; A single man. New York. 1964, dust-jacket; A meeting by the river. 1967, dust-jacket; Kathleen and Frank. New York, 1971, original cloth bindings, 8vo (12) Together with Five autograph postcards signed ("Christopher Isherwood" and "Chris") to Bill Gray, expressing his enjoyment from their recent meeting, recommending Pain, Sex and Time by Gerald Heard, referring to the death of Gerald Hamilton and noting the terms under which he speaks to literary societies ("I either do that sort of thing for free (when a cause I'm interested in is involved) or for an enormous sum of money"). The writer also notes that, in interviews, his "'honesty' and 'sincerity' is only too often concealed aggression". The final card relates to the death of Chester Kallman; five Airmail postcards, 145 Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica, California, 2 August 1967 - 26 January 1975

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