2008 Only Yesterday: Times of My Life

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

The first edition, first impression. 

The author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the title page; "To Carmen, with love Richard, 22.06.08". The work also includes several letters to and from Richard and Carmen, where Callil offers her advice and thoughts on the work in her letters. 

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.

An autobiography by the actor Richard Baldwyn. The work discusses his experiences with the London Blitz, a brothel, being rescued by helicopter in Devon, and much more. 

In the publisher's original paper covers with incorporated fly leaves.