Matters for Judgment. An Autobiography
Melbourne, The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd, 1978 (first edition).
Octavo, [xii] (last blank), 468 pages plus 16 pages of plates.
Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
Provenance: Sir Alexander Downer (inscribed and signed on the half-title 'To my dear Daddy, From your son who admires and adores you. Alexander'). Sir Alexander Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat, was the Minister for Immigration under Sir Robert Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to 1972. His son, Alexander John Gosse Downer AC (born 1951), is a former Australian politician and diplomat, who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and Australian High Commissioner in London from 2014 to 2018.
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