WILLIAM CAMROSE: Giant of Fleet Street. By his son.
Pp. xxii+362, frontispiece portrait, plus 32 plates, bibliography, index; med. v8o; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, flaps a trifle foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1992. First edition. *Biography of William Ewart Berry, later Lord Camrose, who with his younger brother bought The Sunday Times in 1915. 'Over the next decade they became proprietors of more than 100 national and provincial publications. Finally, in 1927, William Berry bought the paper with which he and his family name became most associated - The Daily Telegraph' [wrapper blurb]. Item #179534
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