Peaceful Change. A Selection of Speeches. With a Portrait of the Author [by] Eldon Griffiths.

Bookseller Notes

Signed by Douglas-Home on the half-title, his signature dated to 1964, the year of publication; beneath is an inscription by the editor, 'For Eddie & Evelyn, in the year of two Bury elections, Eldon Griffiths, Oct 17, 1964'. The date is significant this is the day after Douglas-Home lost the General Election to Harold Wilson, which ended his short tenure as Prime Minister; Griffiths, though, was successful in standing as M.P. for Bury St Edmunds, having earlier in the year been successful in retaining the seat for the Conservative Party in the by-election for the constituency.The book itself is, rather unaccountably, scarce on the market; perhaps its fate was too tethered to party fortunes the mood of optimism for the their prospects in the closing speech, 'The Choice for Autumn', gainsaid by the eventual result. It is possible that the binding, though singularly unattractive, is a publisher's deluxe binding of some sort but that is hard to establish.