Ethiopia and Eritrea (Signed By Sylvia and Richard Pankhurst)

London, Lalibela, 1953. 1st Edition. Very good plus red cloth covers. Small area of fade to top head of spine. Very good plus and complete pictorial dust jacket. Authors underlined in red with annotations. Contents fine. Signed by both authors on the front free end paper to Basil Turner. Again underlined in red with annotations. Red annotation on page 257 (index ) Ditto title page. Frontis and other black and white ills. 360 pages. Rare signature from Sylvia Pankhurst and her Son Richard Pankhurst. Note previous owner's red underlining's. Rare signature though.

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English campaigner for the suffragette movement, a prominent left communist and, later, an activist in the cause of anti-fascism. She spent much of her later life agitating on behalf of Ethiopia, where she eventually moved. Pankhurst died in Addis Ababa in 1960, aged 78, and received a full state funeral at which Haile Selassie named her "an honorary Ethiopian". She is the only foreigner buried in front of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, in a section reserved for patriots of the Italian war. Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018, whilst a musical on her life entitled Sylvia premiered at the Old Vic in September the same year.