Books

"Goodbye to Berlin" by Christopher Isherwood. London: Hogarth Press, 1939 first UK edition first printing, half title, textured endpapers, all edges gilt, recent fine black morocco by James Brockman, Oxford, covers with red and gilt stripe onlays, contained in cloth solander box, 8vo. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper "To the Red Flag, from a somewhat moulted but loving American eagle - March 1947", with a note of provenance tipped-in. From the library of Olive Mangeot, her signature to front endpaper. Beautiful copy.

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.'