Gillott Jacky (39 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Signed. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Condition: Good. Signed by the author. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with little wear.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. 1971. Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1971. Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing. . . . .

Condition: Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean with light toning and writing on the ffep. Good DJ with some toning.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Coronet Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, indentations, browning. Psychological drama. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. First Penguin Edition. VG+, Edgewear, crease, remainder mark, browning/NO DUST JACKET. Satire. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

paperback. Condition: Good. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good Jacket. Published by The Leisure Circle. Illustrated. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Garbie is pregnant, unmarried and determined to have an abortion?a predicament which, in the respectable England of War Baby , gives almost everyone an opportunity to develop an opinion about her life. Unfortunately, the one opinion liable to become lost amid the moral concern, social convention and administrative arrangements is Garbie?s own. Told through flashback, Jacky Gillott?s novel follows Garbie as she considers the pregnancy, her past and the narrow collection of acceptable futures society has thoughtfully prepared for women in her position. Pregnancy may be biologically personal, but the surrounding world treats it as public property, complete with interested parties, unsolicited judgements and a committee apparently entitled to inspect the minutes. Garbie is not a conveniently radiant heroine awaiting the discovery of maternal fulfilment. She is plain, anxious, observant and painfully conscious of her place in the social order. She has no husband waiting nobly in the next chapter and no large private income with which to transform a crisis into an interesting period of reflection. Respectability is available, as usual, but only to those who can afford the entrance fee. Gillott uses Garbie?s situation to examine the gulf between privileged and disadvantaged lives. The same pregnancy can be treated as a manageable inconvenience, a romantic complication or a moral catastrophe depending upon money, family and social position. Society enjoys announcing universal principles; it is rather less enthusiastic about distributing universal choices. Written during an era when abortion had recently become legally available in Britain but remained surrounded by shame, suspicion and fierce public argument, War Baby explores the distance between legal permission and genuine freedom. A right existing on paper is one thing. Exercising it while being examined by doctors, relatives, acquaintances and the invisible jury of conventional opinion is quite another. Yet this is not merely an ?issue novel? with characters arranged around a debate like chairs in a television studio. Gillott is interested in the contradictory inner life behind the public question: fear, resentment, longing, guilt and the possibility that a woman may want several mutually incompatible things at once. Human beings are inconsiderate that way, particularly when literature would prefer them to represent a clear position. Garbie?s reflections open onto a broader portrait of English society, its class divisions and its talent for disguising coercion as concern. The novel asks what motherhood means when it is expected, what choice means when the available alternatives are unequal, and how much of a woman?s identity is permitted to remain hers once pregnancy has made everyone else suddenly attentive. Jacky Gillott brought to her fiction the sharp social eye of an experienced journalist and broadcaster. Her prose combines political seriousness with an eccentric, darkly comic awareness of human behaviour. She recognises that institutions can be cruel without raising their voices and that respectable people often perform their most impressive moral gymnastics while insisting they are merely being practical. First published in 1971, War Baby belongs unmistakably to the period of second-wave feminism, changing sexual attitudes and battles over reproductive autonomy. Nevertheless, its questions have shown an irritating refusal to become historical curiosities. The clothes, terminology and medical procedures may alter, while society continues enthusiastically discussing women?s bodies as though they were communal facilities requiring improved management. This 1981 Granada edition is ideal for readers interested in feminist fiction, women?s social history and neglected British novels of the post-war period. It is thoughtful, uncomfortable and unexpectedly funny, although its humour comes from the grim recognition that absurdity and injustice are often perfectly capable of sharin.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 190pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. In protected VG d/w. (Foxing apparent to external edges.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1971 Penguin first thus paperback; 236 tanned pages, has neat name/date to fep and slight crease to rear cover but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Brown pages, scuffed cover and spine edges Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 255 pp Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. The jacket is a little edge worn.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 286pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. A couple of small light spots of foxing to the foredge and to the top edge, otherwise internally very clean. Olivia, a middle aged woman who has everything, comes to terms with the realities of her life.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Ed., hard cover maroon cloth bds, gilt titles to spine, slightly skewed at spine otherwise VG+, unclipped dust jacket, slight scuffing in places small closed tear to rear, spine a little faded, edges a little furled, neat name and address to ffep, contents fine and tight, pp254. A collection of short stories, for example between man and wife, between lovers, or between children and parents. …

Condition: Good. Bumps/wear at edges/corners. Some marks, scratches, creasing and fading to cover/spine. Slight lopsiding to the right. Tanning/scratches at text blocks. Tanning at apge edges. Text good and legible.

First Edition. Hardcover. 256pp. Small bookseller's label on pastedown, V.g. in dustwrapper slightly snned on spine, few nicks head of spine with inor loss, small closed tear top edge of front panel, minor wear to corners. The Author's first book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed by the author. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and faded spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. War baby is a major novel of English Life during the last thirty years. 8vo .320 Original purple cloth covered boards ,slight fading to bottom. in fair to good dust jacket , price cut.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo softcover 304pp very good. War Baby is a panoramic novel about English life in the last 35 years (from 1974).

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged book. Slightly damaged in some way typically, a grazed corner or torn cover.…

dj. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 255,[1]pp. Slight lean, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 30/- net), with gentle sunning to spine and minute wear to crown; Near Fine. Attractive copy of the English author's first novel. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Purple paper dust-jacket with titles in white, not price-clipped, very minor wear at top edge but otherwise almost as new having been kept inside a clear removable cover. Book iteself unmarked, appearing unused, as new.…

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R300319656: 1976. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Papier jauni. 256 pages. Livre en anglais. Ex libris à l'encre sur le 1er contreplat. Accroc en coiffe de tête. Dos plié. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.…

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R300319643: 1968. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos plié, Papier jauni. pages. Livre en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.