Hardback. Signed and inscribed first edition. Novel with autobiographical elements, commentating on film-making and rise of Nazism. Extended inscription to Jon Bradshaw, possibly the journalist Jon Bradshaw (1938-1986) who interviewed W. H. Auden in 1970. Isherwood plays on his own name in he signature putting Bradshaw in brackets. His legal surname was Bradshaw-Isherwood until his naturalisation as a US citizen in 1946. The inscription is dated 1978. Isherwood has used Tippex to correct the word “Jon”. Dust jacket design by Baldwin Hawes. Wartime printing. Pale blue cloth has a significant stain covering both boards to about half-way up and it has just caught the closed page edges also. the lightly tanned dust jacket is a little frayed to spine ends and has a closed tear to the top edge. Slight dust marking to dust jacket. Text is clean. Binding is sound.