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Second (Revised) Edition, 1st Printing with 4 Additional Biographies

Great Contemporaries is a collection of short biographical essays about famous people, written by Winston Churchill. The original collection was published in 1937 by Thornton Butterworth Ltd., and included 21 essays mainly written between 1928 and 1931.

This book, A Revised and Cheap Edition contains 4 additional biographies:

• Lord Fisher
• Charles Stewart Parnell
• Lord Baden-Powell
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, London 1938
389pp with index
25 Portraits
Bound in navy blue cloth with dust jacket
Gilt titling
The dust jacket has a closed tear to the top left at the front, and a short strip (about 1/4 inch deep) missing from the top of the spine extending about one inch into the back.

Nice bright, tight copy.
The book is in excellent condition with the gilt titling. AS NEW

25 Biographies included:
– 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
– Lord Fisher And His Biographer
– Charles Stewart Parnell
– ‘B.-P.’
– Roosevelt From Afar

Woods A43(b)
Cohen A105.3.a

Item #261