Description
Power and the Party by Barry Phelps, which includes The Carlton Lecture of 1984 by the Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, The Prime Minister.
Octavo, xxvii, 103pp. Full blue leather, title stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Includes a foreword by former Prime Minister Lord Home of the Hirsel. Faint shelf wear to covers, spot of wear on spine with some loss of gilt.
Signed by Margaret Thatcher on bookplate affixed to front free endpaper.
The Carlton Club of London is the original home of the Conservative Party of Great Britain. The private members only club was founded in 1832, in the St. James area of London. Traditionally, only men could become full members, women were limited to associate memberships only.
In 1975, when Margaret Thatcher became the Conservative Leader, she was given an honorary full membership, and remained the only woman to be a full member until 2008.
