[Rarebooks] FS: Isherwood INSCRIBED by W. H. Auden to Beat writer Alan Ansen featured in ON THE ROAD and NAKED LUNCH

[Charles Agvent]

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[AUDEN,  W.  H.]  ISHERWOOD, Christopher. LIONS  AND  SHADOWS.  AN
EDUCATION  IN THE TWENTIES. Norfolk, CT: New Directions (1947).  First
Edition.  Dustwrapper  illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. This  copy
is  INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page by one of the subjects
of    this    literary  autobiography,     W.   H.   Auden--"Alan/with
love/from/Wystan/Xmas  1947.--to Beat writer Alan Ansen who worked  as
Auden's  secretary  and research assistant in 1948-49 and who was  the
model  for Rollo Greb in Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD and AJ in  William
Burroughs's  NAKED  LUNCH.  Still  Near Fine in a  soiled,  Near  Fine
dustwrapper.                                                  $1500.00


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