Equality

Joseph, Keith and Jonathan Sumption

Published by London John Murray 1979, 1979

About this Item

First edition. 130 pages. With a typed signed letter from Joseph dated 30th August 1985 on Department of Education and Science headed notepaper pasted to the front endpaper and the envelope it arrived in to the pastedown opposite, and a pasted in signed dedication on House of Commons headed paper of the same date to the half-title page, and another loosely inserted handwritten note dated two days earlier. The recipient of the letter was Norman Hazell MBE, former Councillor and Mayor of Wakefield, who twice ran as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Wakefield in 1983 and 1987, Joseph's letter making reference to his narrow margin of defeat in 1983, the pasted in dedication is to Norman's son, Christopher Hazell. The book is firmly bound in slightly marked, bumped and rubbed cream-coloured boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. The text block is slightly toned, marked and foxed. The dust jacket is the original and not price clipped, it is slightly marked and rubbed with fading to the spine, also some minor nicks and creasing to the edges. A right-wing critique of the concept of equality written by one of the architects of Thatcherism shortly before the Conservative's victory in the 1979 General Election, with some well-provenanced signed notes and letters to one of his colleagues.

Seller Inventory # 7037

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Equality
• Publisher: London John Murray 1979
• Publication Date: 1979
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)