Douglas Hurd 
The Shape Of Ice 
1998 Little Brown
Signed 
First Edition First Impression.
Condition good/Very good, not price clipped, minor wear and creasing, see photos.
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Douglas Hurd b.1930, is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.

A career diplomat and private secretary to Prime Minister Edward Heath, Hurd first entered Parliament in February 1974 as MP for the Mid Oxfordshire constituency (Witney from 1983). His first government post was as Minister for Europe from 1979 to 1983 (being that office's inaugural holder) and he served in several Cabinet roles from 1984 onwards, including Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1984–85), Home Secretary (1985–89) and Foreign Secretary (1989–95). He stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party leadership in 1990, and retired from frontline politics during a Cabinet reshuffle in 1995. In 1997, Hurd was elevated to the House of Lords and is one of the Conservative Party's most senior elder statesmen. He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group. He retired from the Lords in 2016. Hurd is also a writer of political thrillers.