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FIRST EDITION, pp. 320, crown 8vo, original light grey cloth, backstrip lettered in red, top edge red, free endpapers a little foxed, bookplate to front pastedown, dustjacket by Humphrey Spender, chipped and rubbed with a little creasing, good. The gift inscription on the flyleaf does not look to be authorial, but dates from the time of publication and is intriguing: 'For Tom, after all that Kismet, it's rather hard (virginal remark), 2.iii.39'.

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.'