Party Hammer, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 404pp. With personal dedication by author. Some pencil underlining and marks in margins. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. John Golding (1931-1999) was a right wing (in Labour Party terms) trade union leader in the 1980s and then became a Labour MP. This book tells the tale of his battles with the Labour left, particularly Tony Benn and Eric Heffer. The book was published posthumously. His wife, Llinos Golding,Baroness Golding (born 1933) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who currently sits in the House of Lords. She was the MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1986 to 2001, having replaced her husband. After stepping down at the 2001 general election, she was created a life peer as Baroness Golding, of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire in the same year. Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd (1929 2023), was a British politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000. She was previously a Deputy Speaker from 1987 to 1992. She was the first and as of 2026, the only woman to serve as Speaker. She later sat in the House of Lords as, in accordance with tradition, a cross-bench peer. This copy is fine in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ has very slight edge wear. It is inscribed to Boothroyd by Golding's widow, Llin, on the ffep "To Betty, One of the Best of the Goodies, Llin for John". SA24.