First Paperback Pulp edition of Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood

First Edition

[Pulp] [LGBT] Isherwood, Christopher. Down There on a Visit. London: Four Square Books, 1964. First edition first printing mass market paperback pulp edition. 272 pages. Measures 4.25" x 7". Isherwood's novel is a bemused, sometimes acidic portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. The famous photographer tracks the lives of four individuals including Ambrose, a neurotic Englishman who tries to create a Utopia on a Greek Island, Waldemar, a reprobate escaping from Hitler's Germany, Paul, the "most expensive male prostitute in Europe" and Lancaster, a vehement reactionary who has the death wish. Cover art features the same illustration as the UK first edition of a man in a suit at a mirror while another older man looks on. Tagline reads: The candid camera eye of Christopher Isherwood records the private hell of four men; their worlds of loneliness, despair and degradation." In very good condition.

Item #19938

Price: $75.00