Description
Signed first edition of Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher. Octavo, xiv, 656pp. Maroon cloth spine with gilt title. Clean boards, text. First edition, second printing with number line ending at “2” on copyright page. Dust jacket near fine, retail price on front flap, minor shelf wear. Signed by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to journalist and society columnist Aileen Mehle on bookplate, affixed to front end paper: “To Mrs. Aileen Mehle, All Good Wishes / Margaret Thatcher.”
Comments: Aileen Mehle, better known by her pen name Suzy Knickerbocker, was a nationally syndicated society columnist and journalist. In Television, she was known for her appearances on “What’s My Line” during the 1960s. She passed away in 2016 in New York City.