Light toning to spine and edges, some internal foxing, minor tears to rear hinge, some dampstaining to top edge and staining to top edges of some leaves a good copy. With dust jacket.īookplate to front pastedown. Original grey cloth, lettering to spine in red, top edge red. It won the Tony Award for "Best Musical" and was adapted into a film version in 1972, directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles. The short story "Sally Bowles" would form the basis for Kander and Ebb's 1966 musical entitled Cabaret. Connolly noted "Berlin under the emergent Nazis provided a stiffening of tragedy here shown in his moving story 'The Nowaks', in the two remarkable Berlin diaries, with 'Sally Bowles' for comic relief". The book was signed by Isherwood during his first postwar visit to London in January-April 1947.Ĭyril Connolly chose this collection of six pieces as one of his 100 key books within The Modern Movement. We can find only one copy recorded at auction in the last few decades. Inscribed copies of this title, widely accepted as the author's masterpiece, are rare. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author, "For Gerald Carter, with best wishes, Christopher Isherwood.
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