Price: £800
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: [1964]
Stock Number: 70886
(Your basket is currently empty)A Selection of Speeches. With a Portrait of the Author [by] Eldon Griffiths.
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8 plates with monochrome photographs of Douglas-Home, pp. 131, foolscap 8vo, binding of navy blue leatherette, upper board lettered in gilt, backstrip with gilt rules and five raised bands, gilt decoration to turn-ins, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, slipcase, near finePublication Details: Arthur Barker, [1964]
Notes: Signed by Douglas-Home on the half-title, his signature dated to 1964, the year of publication; beneath is an inscription by the editor, 'For Eddie & Evelyn, in the year of two Bury elections, Eldon Griffiths, Oct 17, 1964'. The date is significant – this is the day after Douglas-Home lost the General Election to Harold Wilson, which ended his short tenure as Prime Minister; Griffiths, though, was successful in standing as M.P. for Bury St Edmunds, having earlier in the year been successful in retaining the seat for the Conservative Party in the by-election for the constituency.The book its...more
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