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New York: Random House, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. First American Edition, from British sheets. British-born Christopher Isherwood (1904-86) mined a lot of literary gold from his decadent, bohemian youth in Weimar Berlin, most notably this semiautobiographical novel which George Orwell hailed for its "brilliant sketches of a society in decay." Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver stamping. A fine copy in a remarkably fresh dust jacket with just a hint of edgewear.

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.'

The first edition was published in the UK, in 1937.