THE AMBASSADOR. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat,black ink handwritten inscrptn+signature: 'Best wishes Edwina Currie (underscore)' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Melvyn Warren-Smith,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with blue+gilt embossed lettering,and author's colour photographic portrait illustrated rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though lightly toned,bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - top two corners excepted - these minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-439pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,and epigrams page.See my book ID rja486714 for a non-fiction title by her - DIARIES 1987-1992. In the year 2099,the free world is dominated by the European Union, climate change and gene therapy.Comprising 42 nations and over a billion people,the EU is more powerful than the United States,and while 'cloning' is not mentioned in polite society,it's happening,and seen as tremendous progress in the battle against ageing and disease.'NTs' (Nuclear Transplants) are fully integrated into society. America,however,has been captured by fundamentalists opposed to the medical advances. And when Bill Strether is sent by the US President to represent his country in London,he too harbours doubts over its ethics. Guided by two NT insiders - Prince Marius Vronsky,an elected member of the House of Lords,and Dr Lisa Pasteur,a proud and able scientist - he comes to realise the full breathtaking extent of the official genetic programme,and finds it impossible to condemn.But when files go missing, a chromosome disintegrates,and a sinister lorry is seen leaving the laboratory late one night,the true dangers become apparent.
Scientific discovery is both Pandora's Box and the Ali Baba cave.When faced with the astonishing array of choices offered to us by the new genetic knowledge,how do we choose? In 'The Ambassador',Edwina Currie has created an extraordinarily vivid portrait of how the world could look - and think - one hundred years from now (then 1999): a novel as though-provoking and thrilling as it is gripping. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!