Goodbye Berlin by Isherwood Christopher, First Edition (40 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Condition: New. 2022. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition and third printing.In good beige cloth boards, red titles to back strip. The covers are firm, shelf-cocked; quite clean; spine ends bumped. Fairly clean end papers; the front free end paper is missing. Slightly tanned cut edges. The text block is tightly bound, and clean - not tanned or foxed - very good minus condition. Overall condition is good. No dedications etc. Without jacket. This is not the book club edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Grosz, George (illustrator). 1st Edition. Folio Society edition, sixth printing, 2016 (first printing of this edition was 1975). No jacket as issued. With original slipcase. Selected by Frank Whitford. With drawings by George Grosz. Blue slipcase is near fine with the odd small mark and the odd minor scratch/minor bump. Boards are fine with no faults. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. No internal faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Ed. First paperback ed. Fair condition, over all wear, damage and tape to lower spine. Signet #937. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Isherwood, Christopher, Goodbye to Berlin First Edition March 1939 Second Impression March 1939. Grey Cloth binding with red title to spine, Grey binding is a little grubby especially on the spine. Some foxing to end papers. Inner hinges cracked but binding still strong. Otherwise clean and clear copy. Contemporary signature in ink on free end paper. Seller Inventory # 002369.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Grosz, George (illustrator). 1st Edition. A Fine, Collectible, Folio Society book, no sleeve. Illustrated Folio Society edition of this well-known novel from Anglo-American author Christopher Isherwood. Illustrated throughout. Set during the waning days of the Weimar Republic, this novel recounts Isherwood's 1929-1932 sojourn as a pleasure-seeking British expatriate on the eve of Adolf Hitler's ascension as Chancellor of Germany and consists of a "series of sketches of disintegrating Berlin." The plot was based on factual events in Isherwood's life, and the novel's characters were based upon actual persons.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cond.: VG / VG. 1st Printing of the 1945 New Directions Edition (US) thus. In remarkable condition for its age, Book is straight, square, securely bound, uniformly age toned and free of markings and blemishes. Cover is clean and bright, with thin strip of age toning along the edges, gently bumped corners, joints, headcap and tail, and crisply presented design and lettering. Dust Jacket is unclipped (reflecting original USD $3.50 price), age toned and encased in protective mylar, with light chipping at the corners, joints, head and tail (some loss at the head and tail), rubbing along the wraps and hinges - none of which interfere with legibility of lettering or clarity of artwork. (Please see Seller images.) Pre-ISBN. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping; please contact ShiroBooks PRIOR TO ORDERING if more information, details or photos are needed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing, 1939. Hardcover, no jacket. Binding weak at one spot. Text clean, unmarked. Exterior lightly shelfworn, mostly at corners, and somewhat soiled. From the library of poet Robert Hunt, partner of Witter Bynner, with his name and Santa Fe address inside. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's original oatmeal cloth, red lettered upon the spine, a couple of light grubby marks else a clean square copy, top edge of text block in red, original endpapers, clean and tight, though the tightness suggests that the book has possibly been recased at some point, in spite of this a very handsome example, in the scarce original dust wrapper by Humphrey Spender, this with some chips to the extremities, surface creases and tape repairs underneath, still just about good and will come presented in a protective plastic sleeve. Isherwood's evocative classic about the last days of Weimar Germany; further inquiries/photograph requests welcome.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition thus, collecting the two novels in a Chatto "Twin" edition. Introduction by James Fenton. Endpapers with very faint spotting else near fine in a fine dust jacket with faint rubbing. An uncommon edition.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. In vernacular DJ. Writing inside. Slightly dampstained. (Berlin, Autobiographical Fiction).

(1945). First U.S. edition, first printing. Owner's name and address to front pastedown, else a solid very good plus copy; in a quite substantially browned pictorial dust jacket which also shows some rubbing, and shallow chipping at the extremities. I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8 x 5.5", cloth, 191pp; 207pp, extremities a bit bumped and worn, pp toned, in a rubbed, darkened and edge-worn/chipped dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. Contains A Berlin Diary (Autumn 1930), Sally Bowles, On Ruegen Island (Summer 1931), The Nowaks, The Landauers, and A Berlin Diary (Winter 1932-3). "The six pieces contained in this volume form a roughly continuous narrative. They are the only existing fragments of what was originally planned as a huge episodic novel of pre-Hitler Berlin." -- Isherwood. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so, he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Moderate shelf wear, complete removal of spine super, exposed netting, else intact, bumped corners, toning, else, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Pictorial paper wrappers. 8vo. xxxvi, 889, [3]pp.

First edition thus. 8vo. [xiii], 207 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (87898). With a new preface by the author. Light spotting on outer edge of dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Gray cloth first edition hardcover. Slight spine ridge, one board corner slightly bumped. Sound and unmarked. The DJ in mylar is chipped at spine ends and rubbed at spine, toned at flap edges, with interior tape reinforcement. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition/4th printing. DJ Good but with losses on the spine. Board cover Good. Text Clean and clear 317 pp Some staining on top edge. Overall VG.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First paperback edition. Actress Julie Harris in the role of Sally Bowles from the Braodway production "I AM A CAMERA" pictured on rear cover. Near fine with only a few trivial spots of shelf-wear. (167pp. ) (4 1/4" X 7") Choice copy. ; 4 1/4" X 7" ; 167 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. 317 pp. Publisher's canvas cloth with red lettering to spine. Bumping to extremities, with a mark to lower edge of text block. Foxing to edges of leaves. 8vo.

8vo. First American Edition. First American Edition. 8vo. Isherwood's two short novels of life in Berlin in the early 1930s are the source for the film Cabaret. First American edition here combines the two Berlin novels, originally published by the Hogarth Press as Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, in 1935 and 1939 respectively. Original grey cloth. Small dark stain on spine, edges a little sunned, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket with darkened spine and edges, small chip at head.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Hogarth Press, 1939. 1st Edition, 1st Impression. VG +. In publisher's Oatmeal Cloth with red lettering to the spine and redstained top edge. Spine slightly toned and a very slight rubbing to tail of spine. Otherwise in exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 317 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Missing issued dust jacket. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with orange lettering along the spine, has stains throughout, bending along the fore corners, and age-toning along the edges. Textblock has bending wear along the head fore corners of several pages, stains on the front end-page, black ink stamp on the rear end-page, pencil marks on the pastedowns, a stamp on the rear pastedown, mild wear along the edges, stains along the edges, and moderate age-toning along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. 1390783. Special Collections.

Hardcover. First edition. 317 pages. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. This is perhaps his most famous literary work. His writing juxtaposes the rise of National Socialism and the squalor of a city where poverty and violence were rampant, with the superficial hedonism of the last dregs of the post-Weimar era. Clean copy, tiny bookplate (EHK) front cover pastedown. Orig. beige cloth, spine lettered in red and lightly faded. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy with one corner of the flyleaf clipped in Very Good plus clipped dust jacket with shallow wear to the spine ends. The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires?this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. (From the British sheets) Fine in very close to fine dust jacket. (317pp. ) (What appears to be an unnecessary and neat tape mend at crest of spine on inside of dust jacket presents the only discernable flaw to the jacket. ) Basis for the musical play Cabaret as well as John Van Druten and Isherwood's adaptation for the stage "I am a Camera." A splendid copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 317 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Tiny stain on front board, near fine in very good dust jacket with spine-toning and a few small chips. Signed by Isherwood on the titlepage.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foxing on the endpapers else very near fine in very good or better dust jacket with shallow loss at the crown, and an old internal tape shadow, but no restoration. Includes the story "Sally Bowles," published earlier by Hogarth, which was the basis for the film *Cabaret*. *Connolly 100*.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. 12mo. 317pp. A fine, bright copy in a spine-toned very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing at the extremities. Connolly. 'The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France and America 1880-1950' (No. 86). [with sheets printed in England (as issued); Connolly No. 86].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Full black cloth with gilt decoration (reverse lettering in banners), 7.5" x 5", 317 pp., under red & black dust jacket, original review slip with two paragraphs of ad copy laid in. Some discoloration to endpapers; dust jacket toned at spine and top edges of front & rear panels, original price of $2.50 intact on front flap. A nice copy, quite uncommon with review slip.