First English Edition (Fifth Impression). Penetrating profiles of twenty-one political and literary luminaries. An utter delight to read; beautifully written, brutally opinionated. (Hitler comes off just a bit better than Shaw.) Churchill's subsequent "Revised Edition," added four additional profiles: Fisher, Parnell, Baden-Powell and Franklin Roosevelt. This is a very good copy of the Fifth Impression of the First English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth is very faintly spotted, the spine is very mildly faded, the binding is crisp and tight and the gilt lettering is bright. The contents are fine, with very faint, scattered foxing to the prelims and fore-edges only. 8vo (387 pages; illustrated with 25 portrait photographs) (Cohen A105.1.e) (Woods A43a).

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Title: GREAT CONTEMPORARIES -First English Edition (Fifth Impression) in the Rare Dust Jacket-
Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1937
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good

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