Isherwood (Christopher) Prater Violet
£160
London, Methuen, 1946.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original purple boards lettered in green to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 5s.
Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel on the world of film-making in Britain during the atrocities of Nazism.
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A very good example of the book; jacket a little tanned but overall very good.
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