Callil, Signed (15 results)

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).

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

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: 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.

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 607 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$30.00." General shelf wear. Light foxing to edges of textblock. Signed flat by Callil on title page. Shelved in Holocaust Studies. 1398597. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine unread condition first edition signed by authors on title page. Free of owner's marks with extremely tight binding. Shelfwear negligible. Dust jacket fine and in protective archival sleeve. signed by authors or artist.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition first impression. Signed and dated 23/4/99 (publication day) by both authors to title page. Fine in Fine unclipped dustjacket. A lovely copy which appears to be unread, presented in a clear removable sleeve, Signed by Author(s).

Lightly age-toned edges, editor signature to title page, else fine in Fine DJ. KRM/Lit Crit.

1st Ed. XXX, 607, (3) PP with 2 Family Trees, 4 maps and 17 text illustrations, plus 32 pages with 70 b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Signed by the author on title page. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24.2 x 17. . and Tasmania. At the time, the motto of France under Marechal Pétain, was: Travail / Famille / Patrie (Work / Family / Fatherland).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. A mint first printing in a likewise unclipped dust wrapper. This unread gift condition copy is SIGNED by Colm Toibin AND Carmen Callil who has also Publication Day DATED THIS SUPER COPY 23.04.99 to the title page. Scarce to find with these attributes.BOXED DESPATCH: OVERSEAS AIR ONLY: PLEASE DO NOT SELECT SURFACE! Signed by Author(s).

xxvii+260pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. First Edition. Signed by both authors on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. An As New First Printing in likewise unclipped dustwrapper. This immaculate unread copy is SIGNED and Publication Day DATED 5th April 2006 by the Author to the title page, having a MINT SIGNED handwritten Republic of France postcard loose laid in referring to Anne Darquier by the Author and confirming the Author's dedication to the recipient's brother. Very scarce to find with these superb attributes. Signed and Dated By Author.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The author's own copy of this insightful biography on Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, with her notes throughout. An advance first edition copy, the author's own copy, with her corrections throughout the text. Most of the corrections have been signaled by a sticky tab. With pencil corrections to the text, and notes to the verso of the rear endpaper and rear paste down, and notes in pencil and ink to the recto of the front endpaper. The author has written in ink to the recto of the rear endpaper "This shouldn't happen again".Letter from an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Sonny Mehta, is loosely inserted, discussing the subtitle of the work. Three typed reviews for the work are taped to the verso of the front endpaper, from Nick Fraser, Francis Wheen, and Tzvetan Todorov.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An insightful and haunting biography on Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, who was was Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime. In this work, he is described as "one of history's most despicable villains and con men", working as a Naxi collaborator to "control" the Jewish population during World War Two.Illustrated with thirty-two plates, alongside maps and family trees. Collated, complete.By 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. In the original publisher's paper covered boards, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Author's notes in ink and pencil to the recto of the front endpaper, recto and verso of the rear endpaper, and to the rear paste down. Three typed reviews for the work are taped to the verso of the front endpaper. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Picador, London in 1999. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Light pushing at the spine tips and a hint of toning to the text-block. Internally clean. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The two authors have undertaken a wide-ranging survey of 50 years of fiction and provided a brief commentary on each of the 200 novels selected. The book has been signed (without dedication) by both authors to the title page. Additionally the book has been signed by 57 other authors at their contribution : 46 signatures are flat-signed and the remaining 11 are on tipped-in signed bookplates (Don DeLillo has signed an event ticket). The signatures include 4 Nobel Laureates and 14 Book Prize winners. The flat-signed author signatures are : Edmund White, Jeanette Winterson, Tom Winton, Alice Walker, Tobias Wolff, Donna Tartt, William Trevor, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Beryl Bainbridge, John Banville, Pat Barker, A S Byatt, Jonathan Coe, J M Coetzee, Jim Crace, Louis de Bernieres, Anita Desai, Roddy Doyle, Margaret Drabble, Bret Easton Ellis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard Ford, Frederick Forsyth, Nadine Gordimer, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, P D James, Ruth Rendell, James Kelman, Fay Weldon, Irvine Welsh, Thomas Keneally, Doris Lessing, David Lodge, Ian McEwan, John McGahern, Patrick McGrath, Edna O'Brien, Anne Rice, Salman Rushdie, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Jane Smiley, Graham Swift and Amy Tan. The tipped in signed book-plate authors are : J G Ballard, Saul Bellow, Peter Carey, Don DeLillo, E L Doctorow, Joseph Heller, John Le Carre, Elmore Leonard, Timothy Mo, William Styron and Anne Tyler. A spectacular array of literary signatures. Some photos and event tickets are provided as provenance for a few of the signatures. The previous owner of this book had spent over a decade accruing these signatures at various literary events. Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE, FRSL was an publisher, writer and critic who spent most of her career in the UK. She founded the 'Virago Press' in 1973 and received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. A unique copy. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).