Mikhail Gorbachev - MEMOIRS - Signed

Publisher: London: Doubleday

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

First Printing of the UK edition. Unquestionably one of the most influential statesmen of the 20th Century.

A substantial, heavy book which is prone to losing its shape but this is a Fine, tight, firm binding. In a Fine unclipped dustjacket.

SIGNED (for the seller in person) by Mikhail Gorbachev at the title page.

The signing took place at what was then Waterstones' branch located in Harrods Department Store in Knightsbridge, London. As you can imagine there was a very, very long queue and I was fortunate enough to be very near the front of that queue because after only 15 or 20 minutes of signings his security people interrupted the line a few places behind me and told the remaining hundreds of customers to get lost.

I would estimate that maybe only 50 or 60  people got their books signed that day - his only scheduled signing that I know of in the UK at that time. 

Most other signed copies of this book are signed via a bookplate - directly autographed copies are rare.