National Service: Dairy of a Decade [Signed First Edition] by Eyre, Richard - 2003

London: Bloomsbury, 2003. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed 'Richard Eyre, Cheltenham 2003' to title page. 1st/1st with full number line. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean, bright and intact with minor marking and minimal rubbing to edges. Black cloth gilt: clean, bright, square and sharp. Age-toning to paper but o/w a fine copy. Contents clean and tight without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or markings other than author's signature. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 'During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but 'National Service' is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the National Theatre is laid before us. So are good gossip, brilliant insights into personalities and relationships and a sense of the ridiculous, which Eyre is powerless to suppress.' - Publisher's blurb. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.