The Downing Street Years.

THATCHER, Margaret .

Item Number: 146941

London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.

First edition, early printing of Thatcher’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on a Downing Street bookplate laid down on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With a typed letter dated 20th December 1993 signed by Thatcher’s secretary Debbie Fletcher laid in. Front jacket photograph by Srdja Djukanovic. Back jacket photograph by Joe Partridge.

Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman Prime Minister in 1979, a post she held for eleven and a half years. She was leader of the Conservative Party for fifteen years, from 1975 to 1990. She was the only British Prime Minister of the twentieth century to win three consecutive general elections. Her partnership with President Ronald Reagan was the driving force of a conservative revolution that transformed the political landscape of the West, achieved a crushing defeat of Communism, and so brought liberty and prosperity within the grasp of millions who had never known them.