Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Diaries: Into Politics
by Clark, Alan
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297644025
- ISBN 13
- 9780297644026
- Seller
-
ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. Hard Cover. 8vo 0297644025 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.Illustrations. Plates. xxiv, 389 pages clean and tight. .AINTO POLITICS begins in 1973 with Clark¿s selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth (rival candidates included future Conservative luminaries Michael Howard and Norman Fowler). Alan Clark describes his election to the Commons in the 1974 general election; his years as a backbencher coincide with Edward Heath as PM, his downfall and the arrival of Margaret Thatcher. This volume ends with the inside story of the Falklands War. In his private life Alan and his wife Jane and their two young sons take over Saltwood Castle, previously the home of his father Kenneth (Civilisation) Clark. His enthusiasms for the estate, skiing, fast cars and girls are never far away. .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145189
- Title
- Diaries: Into Politics
- Author
- Clark, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0297644025
- ISBN 13
- 9780297644026
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
Terms of Sale
CHARLES BOSSOM
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Please contact me if you have any problem with your order by e-mail charles.bossom@googlemail.com
About the Seller
CHARLES BOSSOM
Biblio member since 2010
ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....