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8vo. 19cm x 13.5cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver to spine and front board, clean and strong, in a very handsome dustjacket with some traces of professional restoration to the head of the spine and upper front corners, nothing major, but nevertheless some sophistication. A very good copy of a scarce book, shows very well indeed. 317pp. Internally clean. An attractive copy of the book that gave us "Cabaret", a detailed knowledge of the seamy side of life in Berlin in 1930, and an unfortunate desire to wear belted overcoats and smoke ruinously strong cigarettes. Scarce.

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.'