Alan Clark - Diaries, Signed and Inscribed First UK Edition

Published in London by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. hardcover in dustjacket.

A divisive and polarizing figure in his lifetime, Alan Clark was described by former UK Chancellor Norman Lamont as "the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times". But, an accomplished historian, his three volumes of political diaries are now considered amongst the most important of the 20th Century and draw comparisons with the work of Samuel Pepys. Volumes 2 & 3 were published posthumously.

This copy of the first volume, Diaries (1993) has been inscribed to the original owner and signed and dated by Alan Clark at the title page.

Condition: VG, the book has a slight lean, reading crease to the backstrip and is pushed at the spine tips, corners bumped and rubbed a little. The dustjacket is unclipped but does have a sizable tear at the lower front corner which has been repaired - not particularly well - with sellotape to the inside. Rubbing to the remaining corners with split at one top corner and a small chip to the laminate at the crown. A Fair-condition dustjacket only.