The Memorial; Portrait of a Family
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, 8 x 5 1/2 inches (202 x 140 mm); 294 pp. Pages clear of marks and lightly and evenly toned. Publishers dark red cloth with gold and black on spine. Original dust jacket in very good condition, small tears to the bottom edge on the front and top edge on the back; price ($2.75) intact on front flap and list of "the new classics series" on the back.
The first American edition of this book published in England in 1932 and written in Berlin, about the impact of the First World War on the author's family and his generation. Christopher Isherwood's (1904 – 1986) is best known for Goodbye Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret; A Single Man (1964), adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement."
From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 – 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago from 1952 to 1965.
Condition: Fine / Very good.
Item number: 1066
Price: $80.00
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