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The Downing Street Years – Margaret Thatcher’s landmark memoir of her eleven years as Prime Minister, 1979 to 1990, in the 1993 HarperCollins, London first edition, first impression. A substantial blue cloth hardcover, near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with only light dust staining to the top edge and a clean, defect-free text.
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The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher was published by HarperCollins Publishers, London, in 1993.
This is the UK first edition, first impression, with the number line running down to 1 (ISBN 0 00 255049 0), photoset in Linotron Baskerville and printed and bound in Great Britain by The Bath Press.
Bound in blue cloth, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt with the HarperCollins device at the foot, it comes in the original pictorial dust jacket with Thatcher’s portrait.
A substantial volume of over 900 pages, The Downing Street Years was her first book and remains the essential first-hand account of her premiership.
Covering her years in Number 10 from 1979 to 1990, the memoir deals with the economy and the unions, the Falklands War, the miners’ strike and the Brighton bombing.
It also covers relations with Reagan and Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War, Europe, and the events leading to her resignation, including her views on southern Africa and sanctions.
The Downing Street Years is an important book for readers of British political history, twentieth-century biography and Cold War history.
Condition – Near Fine
A good, clean first impression of The Downing Street Years. Blue cloth boards clean and square, the spine gilt bright. Dust jacket near fine, bright and unchipped.
Light dust staining to the top edge of the text block. Internally clean and defect free, with no inscriptions, marks or foxing. Binding firm.
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