Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.

ISHERWOOD, Christopher.

$850.00

Item Number: 104893

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938.

First edition of Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.

Lions and Shadows depicts "the first stages in a lifelong education—the education of a novelist. A young man living at a certain period in a certain European country, is subjected to a certain kind of environment, certain stimuli, certain influences. That the young man happens to be myself is only of secondary importance" (Preface). "His 'Annus Mirabilis' was 1935 with Mr. Norris Changes Trains and his autobiography, Lions and Shadows… The most gifted novelist since Greene and Waugh" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 86).