A Single Man (1964), signed

• Published: Methuen, London, 1964
• Edition: First edition (UK), first printing
• Binding: Cloth, dust jacket
• Dimensions: Octavo
• Language: English
• Signature: Signed by Isherwood on the title page; previous owner's signature on endpaper.
• Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket; small chip to top back point; slight toning.

A single day in the life of George, an Englishman teaching literature at a Los Angeles college, some months after his partner Jim has been killed in a car crash. Isherwood, writing in his late fifties in Santa Monica, moves between George's body (waking, shaving, teaching, swimming, drinking) and his consciousness, in a single-day form that recalls Mrs Dalloway, and treats a gay man's grief simply as grief.

Isherwood thought it his best novel, and it is the book in which the author of Goodbye to Berlin found his late voice. George's classroom lecture on minorities, and on the fear that underlies prejudice, is one of the most quoted passages in gay fiction. Tom Ford's 2009 film brought it to a new audience.

The London first edition, published by Methuen in the same year as the American.