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First edition. 607 pages + 12 black and white photographic plates printed on both sides. With a typed and signed 1994 letter from Healey on House of Lords headed paper pasted to the front endpaper, the accompanying envelope to the front pastedown, another handwritten signed letter from Healey also on House of Lords headed paper pasted to the half title page, plus two more loosely inserted signed handwritten notes from Healey also on House of Lords headed paper, and a number of loosely inserted newspaper cuttings about Healey from the 1970s onwards. The recipients of the letters and notes were Norman Hazell MBE, former Councillor and Mayor of Wakefield, who twice ran as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Wakefield in 1983 and 1987, and other members of his family. The book is firmly bound in lightly marked, rubbed and bumped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. The text block is slightly marked and age toned. The dust jacket is the original and not price clipped, it is lightly marked and rubbed, with a few nicks and slight creasing to the edges. The autobiography of a long-serving Labour MP, who rose to become Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974-79, with a well-provenanced collection of signed letters dating from his subsequent career in the Lords.…