HEATH, Edward.

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Music. First edition, second impression, presentation copy to Lady Freda Roll, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Freda with all good wishes from a struggling writer to a distinguished author. Edward Heath 30. III. 77". Also included is an invitation to Lady Roll, and to her husband the economist Eric Roll, to Heath's 75th birthday party, 9 July 1991.Freda Roll (1909-1998) was author of The Pomegranate and the Rose: The Story of Katharine of Aragon (1970), and later Mary I: The History of an Unhappy Tudor Queen (1980). Music is an autobiographical account by the former prime minister of his love of music. The first and second impressions of the book were both published in November 1976. Presentation copies are often the second impression - possibly Heath was delivered a stock of them.

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