People one ought to know : autograph manuscript signed : [London], January 1926.

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People one ought to know : autograph manuscript signed : [London], January 1926.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/697846122

The text, written in script in blue pen by Christopher Isherwood, comprises a series of 30 poems, each one written on the recto of a leaf, each poem about a different species of animal. With watercolor illustrations of each animal by Sylvain E. Mangeot on the verso of each leaf, facing a poem.

1 item (68 p., 34 leaves) : col. ill. ; 18 cm.

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7999946

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Mangeot, Sylvain, 1913-

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

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After Isherwood dropped out of Cambridge University in 1925, he became the private secretary to the French violinist AndreĢ Mangeot. Mangeot's son, Sylvain, the manuscript's illustrator, would become the Diplomatic Editor for the Reuters News Agency and the author of The Adventures of a Manchurian: The Story of Lobsang Thondup (Collins, 1974). From the description of People one ought to know : autograph manuscript signed : [London], January 1926. (New York Public Library). WorldCat r...