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First Edition, First State: Beautifully bound by Asprey of Bond Street

Author: Winston Churchill
Publisher: Thornton Butterworth, London. 1937
335pp with Index
21 Illustrations

Beautifully bound in full red morocco for Asprey of Bond Street. All edges gilt.  With gilt tooling to front and rear boards and gilt panelling to spine. Marbled endpapers.

Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill contains biographies of the 21 men he considered to be the greatest figures of the time:

– The Earl of Roseberry
– The Ex-Kaiser
– George Bernard Shaw
– Joseph Chamberlain
– Sir John French
– John Morley
– Paul von Hindenburg
– Boris Savinkov
– Herbart Henry Asquith
– Lawrence of Arabia (T. E. Lawrence)
– ‘F. E.’ First Earl of Birkenhead
– Marshal Foch
– Leon Trotsky, alias Bronstein
– Alfonso XIII
– Douglas Haig
– Aurthur James Balfour
– Hitler (Adolf Hitler) And His Choice
– George Nathaniel Curzon
– Philip Snowden
– Clemenceau
– King George V

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