Polly Devlin — All of Us There

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this beautifully written memoir of growing up Catholic in Northern Ireland. Signed by the author to the title page, "with love & admiration & gratitude". The first edition, first impression of this work.With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. This vivid autobiography describes the author's upbringing as one of seven siblings in a Catholic household in 1950s Northern Ireland. Polly Devlin is a writer, broadcaster and filmmaker who was awarded the OBE for Services to Literature in 1992 Birthday Honours.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 cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with the faintest shelf wear to the spine tail. Dust wrapper is excellent, with mild edge wear and sunning to the edges of the rear panel. Internally, firmly bound. With a couple faint spots to the first couple leaves, however majority of the work really is bright and clean. Author's inscription to the title page. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.