GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-First American Edition (Second Impression)-
1937
First American Edition (Second Impression)
G.P. Putnam’s Sons [New York]
Biblio: (Cohen A105.2.b) (Woods A43ab)
8vo (299 pages, illustrated with 21 portrait photographs)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Blue cloth]
Item Number: 208708
$500.00
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 American edition, reprinted in the month of publication. The dust jacket is shelfworn, with rectangular loss of an inch or so at the spine head, fractional corner losses and some closed tears. The binding and cloth are virtually mint. The contents are fine, with an owner name and date in ink on the front pastedown.