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SKINNER, DENNIS: : SAILING CLOSE TO THE WIND - Remiscences. [Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.QUERCUS EDITIONS LTD.,2014.

ISBN 9781782061564.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author/subject SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn, but author/subject's bold handwritten red felt-tip pen ink inscrptn: 'To Steve Best wishes Dennis Skinner' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,author/subject colour portrait photograph to front panel of dw/dj,with b/w lettering,spine/backstrip with thumbnail colour portrait photograph detail (from front cover) and similarly lettered,rear panel of dw/dj with author's contemporary b/w photograph with a white-lettered explanation of his beliefs, principles etc; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top and fore-edges slightly aged/toned but wihout blemish, foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean and solid with just one intentional top corner tip crease on pp75/6.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white sets of endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author/subject SIGNED,1st edn,ix-xpp+1-341pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,20 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w+colour biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp182/3, acknowledgements and an inces; plus [unpaginated] half-title author/subject SIGNED title page,a dedication,and contents list/table. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally despite corner tip fold,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.Particularly scarce with signature. Dennis Skinner,the famed 'Beast of Bolsover',is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies.Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall,Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain.He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions as on the first day he entered the House of Commons back in 1970. In an age of growing cynicism about politicians,the witty and astute Skinner is renowned as a brightly burning beacon of principle.He has watched Prime Ministers come and go - Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown - and yet remains uncorrupted by patronage and compromise.Cameron discovered Skinner's popularity when a public backlash forced the current PM to apologise in Parliament for calling Skinner a dinosaur who should be in a museum. Skinner at eighty,has a unique take on post-war Britain.A combatant in the great social,industrial and political upheavals of the last half century,he's resisted telling his extraordinary story.Until now.The memoirs of one of Britain's most remarkable political figures. Dennis Edward Skinner (born 11 February 1932) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover,Derbyshire from 1970 to 2019, losing his seat in that year's General Election.He is a member of the Labour Party.Known for his left-wing views and acerbic wit,he belonged to the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs.He was a member of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC),with brief breaks,for thirty years,and was the chairman of the Committee in 1988–89.He was one of the longest serving members of the House of Commons and the longest continuously-serving Labour MP. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author/subject SIGNED,1st edn.
'To Steve Best wishes Dennis Skinner'

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