So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald; Terence Dooley [ed.]; A. S. Byatt [preface]

Edité par Fourth Estate, London, 2008

The first edition of this publication of the correspondences of Penelope Fitzgerald. From the library of Carmen Callil, a personal friend and publisher of A. S. Byatt, who supplies the preface to this work. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A wonderful volume presenting the personal correspondences of Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, edited by Terence Dooley.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, such as A. S. Byatt, Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter, all with a distinctive green spine synonymous with Virago.This work features a preface on Fitzgerald's life from A. S. Byatt, a friend and colleague of Callil, who published a number of her works when working at Chatto.Callil has written the dates of Fitzgerald's life ('17.12.1916 to 28.4.2000') to the title page.With pencil underlining and notations by Callil throughout, most concentrated to Byatt's preface. She underlines Byatt's descriptions of Fitzgerald's 'wildly funny wit' and 'wicked sense of humour'. Later on in the work, she has underlined a sentence from a 1991 letter from Fitzgerald in which she complains 'I'm dreading Bath as they've put me in the Royal Crescent, but I expect I'll be in the attics'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper in exceptional condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright, but with pencil underlining throughout, and one or two page corners folded. Near Fine. N° de réf. du vendeur 966F63

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of ...
Éditeur : Fourth Estate, London
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : Cloth
Illustrateur : None
Etat : Near Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Fine
Edition : First edition.
Type de livre : book