GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-Wartime English "Revised Edition (Second Impression)-
1940
First English "Revised" Edition (Second Impression)
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: 212679
$175.00
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 Second Impression of the First English “Revised” Edition, without dust jacket, issued in May 1940, the month Churchill became PM. The book is somewhat shelfworn, faded along the spine but bright on the front face. The contents are fine, with a vintage Book Society bookplate on the front free endpaper and light foxing to the pastedowns and free endpapers, front and rear, only.