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First combined edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Frances Palfrey Day, with best wishes, Christopher Isherwood, Dec 1951". This edition prints two of Isherwood's most enduring works, The Last of Mr. Norris (1939) and Goodbye to Berlin (1935), set in Jazz Age Berlin on the cusp of Hitler's rise to power. George Orwell praised both, describing the former as a "little masterpiece" and the latter as a "brilliant portrait of a society in decay" (p. 237). They were first published separately by the Hogarth Press, The Last of Mr. Norris originally titled Mr. Norris Changes Trains. Isherwood had intended to write a huge novel about pre-Hitler Berlin, The Lost, of which these stories were to form a part. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in black across brown ground. With dust jacket. Spine ends bumped, faint marks to cloth; unclipped jacket lightly toned, extremities nicked: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. George Orwell, I Belong to the Left, 1998.

Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 novel by English author Christopher Isherwood set in Weimar Germany. It is often published together with Isherwood's novel Mr Norris Changes Trains in a collection called The Berlin Stories. The book is frequently considered one of Isherwood's best works and a seminal work in gay literature.