years at Oxford, her political education and rise in Parliament, her leadership of the opposition, concluding with her election as prime minister. Octavo. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk bookmark. Housed in the original blue cloth slipcase. A fine copy in fine slipcase. £1,250 [145821] 133
THATCHER, Margaret. Kazakhstan, Order of Friendship, 1st Class – set of insignia. 2001
from the nation of kazakhstan to margaret thatcher The insignia of the Order of Friendship presented by the Republic of Kazakhstan to Margaret Thatcher. The Order was established in 1995 to reward international co-operation at the highest levels. Margaret Thatcher was awarded the Order in 2001, and was the seventh person to receive it. It appears to have been given discreetly, as no public record could be found of the bestowal. Other recipients of the medal have since included Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-Moon, and Lee Kuan Yew. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first president of the newly independent Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019, is reported to be an admirer of Margaret Thatcher, and for her part Thatcher was certainly impressed on her meeting with him in 1991; “One foreign observer who met Nazarbayev at this time and formed a favourable impression of his vision and political skills was Margaret Thatcher. On 31st August, the former British prime minister made a stopover at Almaty on her way to a lecture engagement in Tokyo. Nazarbayev briefed his visitor on the momentous changes sweeping through Kazakhstan. He told Thatcher about his republic’s move towards a free market economy and added that a few days earlier he had resigned from the Soviet Politburo . . . ’Mr President, you seem to be moving from Communism to Thatcherism’, said the Iron Lady, as she briefed him on her government’s privatization policy” (Aitken, pp. 106–7). Jewelled breast star together with the badge of the order on shoulder ribbon, presented on a royal blue velvet pad within the original mid-blue skiver-covered, white satin lined coffret, lettered “Friendship” in Russian in blind on the lead edge of the lid, brass clasps. With the bestowal pamphlet. Lightly rubbed, a few scuffs to the base of the coffret, but overall very good. ¶ Jonathan Aitken, Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan , 2009. £12,500 [125686]
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131 THATCHER, Margaret. The Downing Street Years. London: Harper Collins, 1993 “not for turning” Signed limited edition, number 34 of 250 copies signed by Margaret Thatcher on the title page, of the autobiography of her years as prime minister. Octavo. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk page marker. Housed in the original blue cloth slipcase. Single bump to box, else a fine copy. £3,000 [157796] 132 THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. London: Harper Collins, 1995 the life of the iron lady Signed limited edition, number 304 of 500 copies signed by Margaret Thatcher, being the autobiography of her childhood and
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