GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-Wartime English "Revised" Edition-
1940
First English "Revised" Edition (Second Printing)
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A105.3.b) (Woods A43b)
8vo (387 pages, illustrated with 25 portrait photographs)
Hardcover (without Dust Jacket) [Blue cloth]
Item Number: 206634
$185.00
Collector's Guide
Great Contemporaries comprises twenty-one penetrating profiles of political and literary luminaries. An utter delight to read, beautifully written and brutally opinionated (Hitler comes off just a bit better than George Bernard Shaw), the ensuing “Revised” edition (and most future reprints) added four new profiles: Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Description
This is a very good copy of the wartime second printing of the First “Revised” English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth and gilt lettering are bright and fresh on the front face, worn and faded on the spine. The contents are fine with an ink gift inscription on the half-title, dated: “12.4.41.” The front free endpaper has been excised.