Stanley, Edward, 17th Earl of Derby; Churchill, Randolph S.

LORD DERBY 'King of Lancashire': The Official Life of Edward, Seventeenth Earl of Derby 1865-1948.

Pp. xiv+640, frontispiece portrait, plus 12 plates, full page map, full page facsimile, index; thick demy 8vo; grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and signs of removal of earlier bookplate on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Heinemann, London, 1959. *Biography of the Conservative politician, diplomat, soldier and racehorse owner who was twice the Secretary of State for War (during and after the First World War) and also served as British Ambassador to France. Item #177299

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