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Margaret Thatcher: A Tribute in Words and Pictures
by Dale, Iain
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0297851152
- ISBN 13
- 9780297851158
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson for The Daily Telegraph.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Lower corners bumped, slight rubs, to lower edges and to tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated dust wrapper, gilt and white & light blue titles to face and gilt & white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing a shelf price of £20.00. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges, corners and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (emperor blue). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous colour & b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 285 pp. text. iii pp., index & picture credits at rear.* Description: Love her or loathe her (and many do and always will), there is no denying Margaret Thatcher her place in history as one of the most influential Prime Ministers of the twentieth century. She won three General Elections as leader of the Conservative Party in 1979, 1983 and 1987, and even after she left office her legacy still bestrides the political landscape, both in Britain and around the world. This lavishly illustrated tribute brings together personal reminiscences and anecdotes from more than a hundred political figures, whether friends or opponents, or those observing her from the press gallery.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st. with some cover faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2085
- Title
- Margaret Thatcher: A Tribute in Words and Pictures
- Author
- Dale, Iain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0297851152
- ISBN 13
- 9780297851158
- Publisher
- W&N
- Place of Publication
- London UK 288
- Date Published
- 2005-10-06
- Size
- 0.5 x 2.5 x 0.7 cm
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