Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan (Signed and Inscribed)

First edition, third printing. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, ‘D R Thorpe To Hugh with best wishes, September 2010’. xvi, 890pp, plus sections of monochrome plate illustrations. In grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Deep green endpapers. 8vo. . Hint of toning on text block edges, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket, a little bumped at spine tips. A monumental biography, the culmination of 35 years of research, of the Tory rebel who rose to led the party through the era of the Suez Crisis, the Cossack Repatriation, the Winds of Change, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Profumo Affair.