ENGLISH LITERATURE. A TOTAL OF 22 VOLUMES FROM MARGARET THATCHER’S LIBRARY, many with gift or presentation inscriptions, an interesting guide both to her favourite authors and authors other people felt she would find interesting. These comprise:

TOLSTOY, L. War and Peace …. A new and complete translation from the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: 1904. 3 volumes. Red half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spines gilt, top edge gilt. Gilt-lettered morocco label on front pastedown to vol. 1 reading: “Presented to the Rt. Hon. the Baroness Thatcher by Vincent Campbell Managing Director Hammicks Bookshops 20th October 1993” -- Kipling, R. Collected Verse. London: 1912. 4to. Original boards backed in Holland cloth (boards spotted). Gift inscription: “To Margaret and Denis for your 40th Wedding Anniversary and remembering you quoting Kipling on the eve of Maastricht ….” -- Kipling, R. Limitations and Renewals. London: 1932. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition. [Uninscribed gift to Margaret Thatcher together with Hardy’s Moments of Vision below] -- Rutherford, A. (editor). Early Verse by Kipling 1879-1889. Oxford: 1986. Inscribed: “To the Prime Minister with deep admiration from the Editor, March 1986” -- Hardy, T. Moments of Vision. London: 1917. First edition. Loosely inserted letter from Brian Williams, 6 October 1994, presenting the book as a gift to Lady Thatcher together with a first edition of Kipling – Hardy, T. Collected Poems. London: 1919. Gift inscription on half-title “To MT & DT” -- Loos, Anita. “Gentlemen prefer Blondes”. London: [1926]. First English edition. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. Original cloth, dust-jacket (torn with loss) -- Chesterton, G.K. Collected Poems. London: [1927] (Light spotting.) -- Wavell, A.P. Other Men’s Flowers. London: 1944. Later green morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere. 1994 gift inscription to Lady Thatcher -- Mitford, Nancy. The Blessing. London: [1951]. Black morocco gilt. Inscribed “To Margaret and Denis on their 40th wedding anniversary much love Gordon,” with further inscriptions below -- Nash, Ogden. Collected Verse from 1919 on. London: [1959]. Half-title inscribed “To the Prime Minister with great admiration Harry Secombe Sept. ‘80” -- Burns, R. Poems and Songs. Oxford: [1979]. Contemporary blue morocco, front cover lettered in gilt: “Presented to Rt. Hon. Mrs Margaret Thatcher, M.P. at Churchill House, Dumfries on 31st August, 1983,” with another inscription on tipped-in embossed leaf clarifying that the occasion of her visit was to declare Churchill House open -- Burns, R. The Complete Illustrated Poems. [London: 1991] – Burns Chronicle and Club Directory. [Kilmarnock: n.d.]. 4th series, vol. IX -- Holland, P. Lobby Fodder? The Role of the Back-Bencher in Parliament. Oxford: [1988]. Contemporary calf with blue morocco labels, that on front cover gilt lettered: “Presented to the Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher 25 February 1988” -- Baker, K. (editor). The Faber Book of English History in Verse. London: [1988]. Title inscribed: “For Margaret Thatcher who has made a lot of history and deserves an anthology of her own! Kenneth Baker March 25 1988” – Millais, Edna. Selected Poems. [New York: 1991]. Gift inscription “To Prime Minister Thatcher,” one page marked with post-it note which is inscribed “Prime Minister Thatcher” in her own hand -- Betjeman, J. Collected Poems. London: [1993]. Gift inscription to “Lady Thatcher and Sir Denis” – Rowse, A.L. (editor). The Sayings of Shakespeare. [London: 1993]. Presentation copy, half-title inscribed “Margaret Thatcher, O.M. The first copy – with the historian’s constant admiration A.L. Rowse pub. 25 March ’93 Lady Day” -- Zachs, W. Mary Hyde Eccles. New York: Grolier Club, 2002. Gift inscription “For Lady Thatcher and Sir Dennis … with admiration and affection Mary Hyde Eccles”.

All 8vo unless otherwise stated, 7 volumes bound in morocco or calf, one paperback, the rest original hardbacks, in generally good condition, some with dust-jackets.

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