Books

"Sally Bowles" by Christopher Isherwood. London: Hogarth Press, 1937 first UK edition first printing, half title, a few faint marginal spots, all edges gilt, recent fine purple morocco by James Brockman, Oxford, covers with marbled onlaid vellum, curved white lines and gilt star design, contained in a cloth solander box, 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper "For the Mop, 'It sheltered once our infant might, when all ahead seemed dark as night.' With love from Christopher, October 1937." With a note of provenance tipped-in opposite. From the library of Olive Mangeot. Isherwood affectionately refers to Olive Mangeot as 'the Mop' and 'My darling Mop'. Unique copy in beautiful binding.

Sally Bowles is a novella by Christopher Isherwood, originally published in 1937 as part of the novel 'Goodbye to Berlin,' which is part of The Berlin Stories collection. The character of Sally Bowles, a young English singer in Berlin's Weimar Republic, became iconic, especially after the novella's adaptation into the musical 'Cabaret.'