L. S. Amery — My Political Life

London, Hutchinson, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes of the biography of British Conservative Party politician and journalist L. S. Amery. Two volumes of a three volume set, lacking volume three which was published in 1955. First edition. Volume one, England Before the Storm covers the period from 1896 to 1914 and is illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-five images across twenty-three plates. Volume two, War and Peace covers the period from 1914 to 1929 and is illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-one images across twenty-four plates. Collated complete. The autobiography of Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, also known as L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies and served as Secretary of State for India during the Second World War. Amery was also a prolific writer whose output included a multi-volume history of the Second Boer War alongside diaries and memoirs. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original price-clipped dust wrappers are smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small mark. A 1" closed tear to the head of the spine of volume two. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good.