Jun 20, 2019 - Sale 2514

Sale 2514 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD (1904-1986)


The Berlin Stories.

8vo, publisher's cloth, spine tanned, finger soiling, spine tips rubbed, corners bumped; unclipped dust-jacket, usual browning, spine panel and corners rubbed. (New York): New Directions, (1945).

Additional Details


first edition, excellent association copy, inscribed: "To Mart [Crowley] / with my love and / admiration. / Christopher Isherwood / Feb 19 1977." American playwright Mart Crowley is best known for his groundbreaking portrayal of gay life in his 1968 Broadway play The Boys in the Band, later adapted into film by William Friedkin.