Prater Violet

Isherwood, Christopher

Published by Random House, New York, 1945

About this Item

Small 8vo, 7 1/4 x 5 inches (183 x 126 mm); 128 pp. Blue-grey cloth binding with violet and cream printing on front cover and spine. Top edge stained grey-violet. Dust jacket with price ($2.00) intact on front flap and small signs of wear on corners and dj edges. Owner's name in pencil on f.e.p., R.C. Bald. Prater Violet (1945) is Christopher Isherwood's fictional first person account of film-making. The title refers to Vienna's large amusement park. Isherwood broke onto the literary scene as a novelist but he eventually worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter. In this novel, Isherwood comments on life, art, commercialization of art and Nazism. The publication page declares that "This is a wartime book" and that it complies to the Government's guidelines about saving materials. From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago from 1952 to 1965. Seller Inventory # 1065

Bibliographic Details

Title: Prater Violet

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1945

Condition: Near fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very good

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.