Max Reinhardt — Memories

Guildford, Biddles Limited, 1998. First edition. Cloth. The scarce autobiography of Max Reinhardt, limited to only three hundred copies, this is a lovely association copy from the library of fellow publisher Carmen Callil. The limited first edition, limited to three hundred unnumbered copies.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, "To Carmen, with love, Max", with Carmen's "Callil" bookplate loosely inserted.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 'Memories' is a concise memoir of the life and work of publisher Max Reinhardt, who work at The Bodley Head, and published the works of Graham Greene, Maurice Sendak, and George Bernard Shaw.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. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. One small closed tear to the head of the front wrap, and small marks to the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.