New Writing: New Series I: Autumn 1938
John Lehmann (Signed, Inscribed to Rosamond Lehmann)
Christopher Isherwood
Bertolt Brecht
C. Day Lewis
Translation by Stephen Spender
Description: London: Lawrence & Wishart, Spring 1938, First Edition. Original sea-green cloth with stencil-style titling to the cover and spine in a graphic Dust Jacket and clear archival cover. This particular example was inscribed by the editor John Lehmann to his older sister, and author in her own right, Rosamond Lehmann, on the flyleaf: “Rosamond / With love from / John / 12.v.38.” Features a long (36 pages) story by Christopher Isherwood "The Landauers." This story was later incorporated into "I am a Camera" and then in the musical "Cabaret". (Natalia Lanauer was a main character in this story, in "I Am A Camera" and then a character in the 1972 film Cabaret played by Marisa Berenson.) Also includes work by Brecht (translated by Stephen Spender), C. Day Lewis, Ting Ling and Beatrix Lehmann.
Condition: Very Good tight, clean and bright hardcover with toning to boards and light foxing in a Very Good dust Jacket with a piece clipped from the bottom of the inside front flap; overall nicely preserved with added protection from a clear archival cover
Additional Information: Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (1904 -1986) was an English-American novelist. His best-known works include The Berlin Stories (1935–39), two semi-autobiographical novellas inspired by Isherwood's time in Weimar Republic Germany. These enhanced his postwar reputation when they were adapted first into the play I Am a Camera (1951), then the 1955 film of the same name, I am a Camera; much later (1966) into the bravura stage musical Cabaret which was acclaimed on Broadway, and Bob Fosse's inventive re-creation for the film Cabaret (1972). His novel A Single Man was published in 1964 and adapted into the film of the same name in 2009.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt.
Rosamond Nina Lehmann CBE (1901 - 1990) was an English novelist and translator. Her first novel, Dusty Answer (1927), was a succès de scandale; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set. Her novel The Ballad and the Source received particular critical acclaim.
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