Still to Decide

First edition. 8vo. Pp. vii, 246. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; stained black to top-edge. Edited by John Wood. Jacket photograph by Ann Stainton (priced at £2.80 net to front flap).

Signed by Powell to title page. A couple of tiny tears to base of spine and front dustwrapper panel, lightly tanned to flaps, rubbed to edges, else Fine.

A brilliant career as Conservative MP, classical scholar, linguist, and poet, torpedoed by his 1968 "rivers of blood" speech, from which he – rightly – never recovered his reputation. Enoch Powell's pronouncements on such questions as: Who are we? What are we? What is the nation – free or unfree, afraid or unafraid? On what principles are our lives to be managed, by whom are we to be ruled, and, as Churchill demanded of the Nazis, 'what sort of people do they think we are'?