Biography - English Politicians from Goldring Books

London: Harvill Secker, 2017. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. viii + 508 pages. 35 illustrations. Norway campaign map. Endpapers Neville Chamberlain speaking in the Norway debate, 7 Mayj 1940. London, early May 1940: Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall.… Read more

London: Collins, 1990. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to front and a crease to spine) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 463 pages. 34 illustrations. Lord Hailsham was one of the most widely respected figures in British politics and was the longest serving Lord Chancellors of the century, an office… Read more

London: Harper Collins, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 656 pages. 95 illustrations. In her 'The Downing Street Years' Margaret Thatcher gave her own account of her prime ministership from 1979 to 1990. Now in this book she writes for the first time about her personal life, about the training… Read more

London: Michael Joseph, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with Very Good+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 607 pages. 52 illustrations. The memoirs of a leading politician and also the autobiography of a splendid Englishman who is liked and admired across the political spectrum. Healey has witnessed the great changes that have taken place in Britain since the… Read more

London: Macmillan, 1989. COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET. Volume I 1894-1956 - ISBN 0333276914 - A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. xix + 537 pages. 51 illustrations. Volume II - 1957-1986 - ISBN 0333496213 - A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small indentation to rear) with near Fine dustjacket. xvii + 741 pages. 60 illustrations. The… Read more

London: Harper Press, 2008. An As New copy with As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. xviii + 590 pages. 53 illustrations. First edition, First printing. David Lloyd George, the 'Welsh wizard' who became prime minister in 1916 and was subsequently hailed as the 'man who won the war', challenged, charmed and mystified the English establishment all his… Read more

London: Viking, 2002. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xix + 503 pages. 40 illustrations. Shortly after university and a spell at the Foreign Office and having decided not to become a spy, Matthew Parris applied to London Transport for an apprenticeship as a diesel fitter and was turned down. He decided to… Read more

London: Little Brown, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. x + 534 pages. 61 illustrations. Few figures in modern British politics can match the extraordinary career of Douglas Hurd. A mainstay of the Conservative administration of the 1980's and 1990's, he was a Cabinet member for eleven years, and admired and respected on both sides… Read more

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xxviii + 461 pages. 18 illustrations. 2 family trees. Introduction by Roy Jenkins. Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887-1969), was a British politician and the daughter of Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith by his first wife, Helen… Read more

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, 1983. Gold title on red boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front endpaper and a little light foxing to top edge and endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some light foxing to inner flaps and is price clipped. 15… Read more

London: Faber & Faber, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. Norman St. John-Stevas holds a unique position in British life not only as a leading Christian spokesman but also as a senior Conservative politician. In this book he explores with characteristic wit and brilliance the two main themes of his life: his concern… Read more

London: B. T. Batsford, 1964. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 21 illustrations. Shaftesbury's long career was largely devoted to relieving the condition of the destitute of Victorian England, yet just as his many other achievements have been overshadowed by his work on behalf of the poor and oppressed, so the… Read more

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. A VG+ unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. A captivating memoir which describes an unusually full and adventurous life, shared for the most part with two famous men; the Arctic explorer August Courtauld and the stateman R.A. (Rab) Butler. Mollie Montgomerie became engaged in 1930 to her childhood friend August Courtauld,… Read more

London: Harper Collins, 1995. A near Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. The extraordinary and inspiring life of the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons, from humble beginnings as the only child of an impoverished textile working couple in the Pennine town of Dewsbury, an adventurous career as a dancer and a 'Tiller' girl, secretary to Barbara… Read more

London: Heinemann, 1965. Gold title on black boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally foxing to closed eedge else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. Dustjacket has a little wear to top and is price clipped. A masterful and very readable biography of the politician and newspaper magnate with 17 illustrations. With a postscript by… Read more

London: Franklin Watts, 1971. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. A mainly photographic biography by the Member of Parliament for Aberdeen which captures the extraordinary achievements of Heath's life up to his rise to position of Conservative Party Leader and then Prime Minister. 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over… Read more

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. More than a political biography it is the blind politician's story of overcoming disability in which he talks about the good times and the bad. An inspiring and often hilarious account of beating the system by a man and a dog. … Read more

London: Guild Publishing, 1985. A near Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. Thomas, a coalminer's son from Tonypandy in Wales, was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in 1976, the year Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister and Jeremy Thorpe resigned as Liberal leader. His moving memoirs provide great insight into the political world of Britain… Read more

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. A Fine unmarked copy which has age fading to page edges with Fine dustjacket. Joining Parliament as M.P. for Reading in 1945, Ian Mikardo has had a long career as a back bencher and here he paints vivid pictures of Barbara Castle, Michael Foot and Richard Crossman and chronicles his struggle to keep successive Labour… Read more

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. White title on red boards which have some shelf wear to bottom, internally very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete and has a little wear to spine head and tail. Based on the diaries of Lady Stanley, wife of Sir Arthur Stanley, Governor of Victoria, Australia from 1914 by her daughter, Adealaide. Rare insights into the… Read more