Callil, First Edition (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Good plus or better, light general wear, soiled. 1st Am. Ed hardbound Lightly edgeworn jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. NF. Numbering sequence denotes 1st Printing of the Running Press 1st Soft Cover Edition thus (originally published 1999 in Hardcover. Book is straight, square, tightly and evenly bound, and, except for very light bumping to Cover corners, free of other blemishes, markings. and creasing along gutter, hinges or spine. Cover is clean and bright, with sharp joints, straight head, tails, spine, hinges and edges, boldly legible lettering and crisply distinct design. (Please see Seller images). ISBN 9780762442768. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping. CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING if any questions or for more information, details or photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. book is tight with no markings, great copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing UK hardback, 2020 Jonathan Cape. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine jacket in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in fine un-clipped d/j.1st edition.614pp,with illustrations.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First. Black & white photo illustrations. 607 pages. Tall 8vo, two-toned boards, dust wrapper. New York: Knopf, 2006. First American Edition. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket covered with mylar. Stated First American Edition - first printing. Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape. 607 pages with index.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Fine in dustjacket.; 8vo.

Hard Cover. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Stated First American Edition. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET WITH ORIGINAL $30.00 PRICE.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 614 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are some light age marks on page edges. Responsible For Sending Many Jews To The Gas Chambers, After The War Lived In Spain And Never Brought To Justice.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Picador, London, 1999. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. As new. Pristine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Trade paperback. Light edgewear, small crease on the spine, very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover first edition history of Vichy government and one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, 'controlling' its Jewish population.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Wrapper is lightly rubbed. Boards clean and sharp. Clean throughout. Very good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Picador, London, 1999, Hardcover First Edition/First Printing with a complete number line ending in '1'. Book Condition: Fine and just about new, but with the following issues: very light bump to the spine base; remainder line at the bottom of the text block; very tiny ding at the text edge: effects one page; and a very very faint and tiny, dusty spot on the text edge, otherwise a tight unread near new copy, with issues listed as Near Fine. Dust Jacket: has a bit of the remainder marker on it - just a dot at the two inside flaps & another two tiny spots on the rear of the jacket, and is not price clipped, otherwise would be a Fine/New Jacket, with issues, listed as Near Fine minus - jacket comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve - lovely copy despite flaws!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, and some wear and creasing to front jacket around cutout subtitle. Corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 614pp, decorated endpapers. The story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen, Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, controlling its Jewish population. Born into an established, politically moderate family, Louis Darquier (de Pellepoix was a later affectation), proceeded from modest beginnings to dissemble his way to power, continually reinventing himself in conformity with an obsession with racial purity and the latent anti Semitism of the French Catholic Church. As Commissioner for Jewish Affairs he was responsible, with other men of Vichy, for the despatch of Jews to the death camps and for the confiscation of their property. Thousands of children went alone to the gas chambers. After the Second World War he decamped to Spain, never to be brought to justice. Early on in his career he married the alcoholic Myrtle Jones from Tasmania, equally practised in the arts of fantasy and deception, and together they had a child, Anne Darquier, whom they promptly abandoned to grow up in England under a mantle of silence. Her tragic story is woven through the narrative. In Carmen Callil's masterful, harrowing and sometimes darkly comic account, Darquier's ascent to power during the years leading up to the Second World War mirrors the rise of French anti Semitism. Epic, elegiac, the product of extraordinary research, this is a study in powerlessness, hatred and the role of remembrance.

FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with the number "1" on the printer's page. Illustrated throughout the text. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards, with copper block titles to the spine. Head and tail of spine just very slightly creased, otherwise no discernible faults. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps. Corners sharp. Page block edges nice and clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Paper stock clean. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £18.99. The dustwrapper is near fine, with no creasing or other faults - bright and clean with no fading - just very slight rubbing to the edges. ***346 pages including an extensive section of Notes, huge Bibliography, and Index at the back of the book. 240mm x 160mm. ***'Carmen Callil explores her routes in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century England.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) *** 'Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE, FRSL (15 July 1938 - 17 October 2022) was an Australian publisher, writer and critic who spent most of her career in the United Kingdom. She founded Virago Press in 1973 and received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. She has been described by Gail Rebuck as "the most extraordinary publisher of her generation"'. From 1967 to 1970, she was publicity manager of the paperback imprint Panther Books. Callil later took responsibility for all imprints of Granada Publishing, and then at Anthony Blond and André Deutsch. She left to work for Ink, a countercultural newspaper founded by Richard Neville, Andrew Fisher, Felix Dennis and Ed Victor in 1971. At Ink, Callil met Marsha Rowe and Rosie Boycott, who founded the feminist magazine Spare Rib in June 1972. In 1973, Callil founded Virago Press (initially known as Spare Rib Books), 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", through the work of new and neglected women writers. Rowe and Boycott became directors of Virago in its first years. At Virago, among other business and editorial aspects of the company she was responsible for the creation and development of the Virago Modern Classics list (choosing a distinctive green colour for the books' spines), which brought back into print many hundreds of the best women's works of the past.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the true first edition. A beautiful copy of this fascinating historical biography / family history of the founder of the Virago Press. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper, pp.xxvi, 614. Illustrated. The story of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, a Nazi collaborator and the Commissioner for Jewish Affairs who ran the Vichy governments dirty work in controlling its Jewish population. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Heavy book weighing c1200g when wrapped, exceeding the default of 1000g used for the postage quotation, and so the extra postage at cost will be requested at the time of order if to be sent overseas or by 1st class post in the UK ( second class UK not affected ).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp.xxvi+614. 22.5cm. 79 black and white photographic illustrations. Black and white illustrations and maps in the text. Notes. Bibliography and sources.Index. Hard cover in dust jacket. A very good clean copy. ( . the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen . Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator, 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs' . Vichy. and his Tasmanian wife, fantasist and alcoholic'. "A hugely accomplished book").

8vo. pp 614. VG+ in VG+ dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Lightly worn copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Scratch to back cover from price sticker removal, now covered with book tape. In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great-grandmother Sary Lacey, born illegitimate in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker in Leicestershire. Through detailed research, we follow Sary from slum to tenement and from pregnancy to pregnancy. We also meet George Conquest, a canal worker and the father of one of Sary's children. George was sentenced - for stealing a piece of hemp - to seven years' transportation to Australia, where he faced the extraordinary brutality of convict life. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Brooks and her father John, a silversmith, travel across the seas from Lincolnshire to escape the Workhouse and life as a skivvy. But for George, as for so many destitute and disenfranchised British people like him, Australia turned out to be his Happy Day. He survived, prospered and eventually returned to England, where he met Sary again, after nearly thirty years. He brought her out to Australia, and they were never parted again. Carmen Callil not only reclaims from obscurity the lives of these ordinary men and women who were sent to Australia as convicts or domestic servants, but also draws telling parallels for our own times. Oh Happy Day is a moving story of poverty, social injustice, Empire and migration. "Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century England In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great-grandmother Sary Lacey, born illegitimate in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker in Leicestershire. Through detailed research, we follow Sary from slum to tenement and from pregnancy to pregnancy. We also meet George Conquest, a canal worker and the father of one of Sary's children. George was sentenced - for stealing a piece of hemp - to seven years' transportation to Australia, where he faced the extraordinary brutality of convict life. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Brooks and her father John, a silversmith, travel across the seas from Lincolnshire to escape the Workhouse and life as a skivvy. But for George, as for so many destitute and disenfranchised British people like him, Australia turned out to be his Happy Day. He survived, prospered and eventually returned to England, where he met Sary again, after nearly thirty years. He brought her out to Australia, and they were never parted again. Carmen Callil not only reclaims from obscurity the lives of these ordinary men and women who were sent to Australia as convicts or domestic servants, but also draws telling parallels for our own times. Oh Happy Day is a moving story of poverty, social injustice, Empire and migration. (back cover).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo.pp. 614. Signed presentation copy from the author: "for Mike with Best wishes Carmen Callil." Biography of one of histories most despicable villains and conmen Ð Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, a Nazi and Vichy Government collaborator. Original publisherÕs cloth binding in black, lettered white. Dust jacket in red and black, lettered white. Review comments on front cover from the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times and the observer. Loosely inserted call Paige Pages of biography from Wikipedia, and a book review by Richard King. ISBN:9780224078100. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, unread, not price clipped, no owner's name or other inscription, D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Hilary Spurling's Daily telegraph review of 1st April 2006 laid-in. This copy purchased new by me upon publication.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A First edition, First printing. Fine book, in a fine DW now protected in plastic. Signed and inscribed by the author "To John", as pictured. "Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers.". Signed.

Hardback. First Edition. Hardback. Signed, first edition with complete numberline. Signed by Carmen Callil to the title page. Callil is best know for founding the publishing house Virago. The story of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy RÃ gime. Lightly rubbed. Very clean and bright. Very good copy in like dust jacket Very good copy in like dust jacket.