Marina Warner — Fly Away Home: Stories

Cromer, Salt, 2015. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this collection of stories from English mythographer Marina Warner, signed in presentation to Carmen Callil. First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page, in presentation to 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. A collection of short stories which will conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. Written by Dame Marina Sarah Warner, an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer best known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. In the original paper binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .