Osullivan Timothy, Signed (2 results)

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Radius, 2010. Hard cover, first edition; signed by photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket; 63 pages. Signed.

First edition. Inscribed by the subject to the front endpaper: "To Sir Harold Wilson the greatest living Statesman who has done so much to heal the Split Society. And with much affection. Julian and Moira March 1982.". The recipient being former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. From the estate of Harold and Mary Wilson. The book is firmly bound in clean maroon cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, the extremities are slightly bumped and rubbed. The text block is age toned and slightly dusty with minor marks. The dust jacket is the original and not price clipped, it is slightly rubbed, with a few minor nicks and marks. An intriguing association copy, Hodge was a controversial financier, well connected with the Labour Party, given a knighthood by the Harold Wilson government, and perhaps best known for The Commercial Bank of Wales scandal, which also involved Wilson's friend, Jim Callaghan. Hodge was nicknamed the "Usurer of the Valleys" by Private Eye, and for a period in 1981 The Bank of England refused to recognise the CBW as a bank. Its status was restored in January 1982, with this affectionate inscription dated only two months later.