CAMPBELL-JOHNSON, Alan (1913-98). Sir Anthony Eden. A Biography, London, 1955, 8vo, plates, cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT.

CAMPBELL-JOHNSON, Alan (1913-98).  Sir Anthony Eden. A Biography. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1955. 8vo (218 x 135mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece portrait and 16 full-page plates (frontispiece detached). Original black cloth (lightly stained, some white marking to spine, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). A printed note on the verso of the title states, "A Biography under the title of 'Anthony Eden' by Alan Campbell-Johnson was first published in 1938. This present Edition is completely revised and brought up to date." PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Sir Anthony, with the author's kindest regards, Alan Campbell-Johnson, 12th May 1955." ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. For example, on p.9 he highlights the following printed passage from Campbell-Johnson's Preface: 'In a most illuminating appreciation of Eden written for the Strand Magazine early in 1939, Winston Churchill - himself politically isolated - wrote, "He [i.e. Eden] is the only representative of the mutilated generation who has achieved a first-class political position and has held high and dominant office with significance and distinction ...'; on p.89 (commenting on the printed passage 'On 21st February [1934] a diplomatic barrier was broken down when Hitler took lunch at the British Embassy [in Berlin] for the first time. Neurath, Hess, and Goebbels were there as well ... It was during this lunch that Corporal Hitler and Captain Eden exchanged their war memoirs to the extent of working out on the back of a menu the location of their sectors on the Somme. They discovered they were opposite each other'), Eden writes: "Menu card - look for it"; at the foot of the same page: "I was attacked in [the] 'Observer' by Garvin for exceeding my [?]instruction. Van [i.e. Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign office] had done this!"; on p.90 (commenting on the printed passage '... Eden had decided to leave Rome a day earlier than he had originally arranged'): "because London insisted"; on p.102 (commenting on the printed passage '... at the Moscow Grand Opera ... the Lord Privy Seal of Great Britain was applauded long and warmly by an entirely proletarian audience which clapped enthusiastically as God Save the King was played. Then followed the Internationale'), Eden writes: "George V not at all pleased."