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Octavo, 318pp, original cloth boards (a bit worn at extremities) in edgeworn repaired dustwrapper, 1939 gift inscription on flyleaf, a very good copy. First edition. 'Colonial cloth edition' stamp on lower flyleaf.

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.'