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Great Contemporaries.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. [Political biographies] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 335 [3]. With twenty-one photographic portrait plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue. A black ink gift inscription to half-title, dated November 1937. Light spotting throughout, otherwise internally clean. Light wear to cloth; spine sunned. Very good. This volume collects Churchill's classic series of essays on major world figures of the day, including: Lawrence of Arabia, George Bernard Shaw, Trotsky, Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler, and King George V. Item #74737
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