Anwar Sadat : Visionary Who Dared (Signed)

298pp, central section of black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends and corners. Signed and inscribed by author on the title page, ‘To Rhodes Boyson in friendship and deep admiration from the author Joseph Finklestone – Nov.1996’. Also contains, loosely laid in, a complementary letter from the author. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. The first major study of the President by a journalist who came to know him well in the last few years of his life having became intrigued by the unlikely and amazing story of Sadat’s rise to power from an uncompromising beginning as a boy born into poverty, a fanatical, histrionic nationalist who spent years in prison.