THE GLITTERING PRIZES: a biographical study of F. E. Smith, First Earl of Birkenhead.
Pp. 224, frontispiece portrait, plus 8 plates, appendix, index; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges worn,, with a couple of tiny splits, longer (5 cm.) closed tear at foot of backstrip; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, an earlier owner's inked inscription (dated 1966) on the upper free endpaper, the outer leaves slightly offset, a little light foxing; MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1960. First edition. *'Birkenhead - rabble-rouser, self-indulgent, sybaritic K.C.; spendthrift and shameless careerist, with perhaps the finest mind of his generation' [wrapper blurb]. Item #181436
Price: $40.00