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DAY**, SIR ROBIN: : ...But With Respect: MEMORABLE INTERVIEWS WITH STATESMEN AND PARLIAMENTARIANS. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1993.

ISBN 0297813021.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Author's handwritten,ink signature [name: Robin Day],below the title on title page. Colour,author,portrait painting, photographic upper wrap,by June Mendoza, b/w miniature,photographic stills and list of interviews to rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top edge very,very lightly dust-soiled and minimally spotted and lightly aged - as usual/normal,fore-edge bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,clean,plain brown paper-covered bds,no bumped corners,with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain tan/beige eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-301pp [paginated] includes half-title+(signed title) pages,3 b/w miniature photographic stills illustrated frntis,contents list/table, author intro,16 author interviews each with b/w portrait photograph of interviewee,interview of Robin Day by Bernard Levin,author afterthought and 6 blanks to rear.Also included,Sunday Express Book of the Year Award,(1993 Finalists) bookmark - listing William Boyd: Blue Afternoon,Marika Cobbold: Guppies for Tea, Paddy Clarke: Ha Ha Ha,Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong,Tim Pears: In the Place of Fallen Leaves and Barbara Vine: Asta's Book. Sir Robin Day,the foremost pioneer of TV interviewing,has picked for publication sixteen of his memorable encounters with statesmen and parliamentarians. . . .BUT WITH RESPECT is much more than a collection of classic interview texts.In his characteristically forthright introduction,Sir Robin explains how the TV interview has grown in importance and changed in character.To each interview he adds a crisp scene-setter so as to present it in the context of its time and to illuminate the personality of the interviewee.Thus Sir Robin weaves this miscellany of memorable interviews into a vivid tapestry of the TV age.The interviews range from Sir Robin's famous encounter with Nasser in 1957 after the Suez fiasco, to his 1992 election interview ("Where is your soap-box?") with John Major.There are interviews with previous Prime Ministers at critical moments in their political lives. Here is Harold MacMillan in 1958,making his breakthrough as a TV personality.Here is Ted Heath,announcing his notorious U-turn in 1972.Here is Harold Wilson, having scraped back to Number 10 as a minority PM in 1974.Here is Big Jim Callaghan at the blackest moment of the 1976 sterling crisis.Here is Margaret Thatcher in formidable fighting form at the 1983 election,and again,almost unstoppable,in 1987.Here also,in this remarkable gallery of portraits by cross-examination,are some who never reached the top of Disraeli's greasy pole - Roy Jenkins,Enoch Powell,Quintin Hailsham, Harvey Shawcross,Neil Kinnock.And two unorthodox personalities of a very different kind,Lord Lambton and Dennis Skinner.As icing on the cake,Sir Robin has the tables turned on him in a hightly entertaining interview by Bernard Levin. . . .BUT WITH RESPECT may be seen as a companion volume to GRAND INQUISITOR,Sir Robin's best-selling memoirs,published by this same publisher in 1989.Uncommon to find this edn author signed. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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