1984-1985 Spaceache; Inside Babel

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

Two first editions from the playwright Snoo Wilson.

'Inside Babel' is flat signed by Snoo to the title page.

The first and second published novels from Wilson: 'Spaceache' (1984), a science fiction satire, and 'Inside Babel' (1985), his second novel.

From the library of Carmen Callil, an Australian publisher who founded Virago Press in 1973, to "publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population". Virago publish works by new and neglected female authors, publishing the works by authors such as Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter, all with a distinctive green spine synonymous with Virago.

Callil was managing director of Chatto & Windus in the period in which they published these works.

With Callil's bookplate to the front pastedown of 'Spaceache'.