GREAT CONTEMPORARIES -Later Impression of the First English Edition-
by Winston S. Churchill
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937. First English Edition (Fifth Impression] (Cohen A105.1.e) (Woods A43a). Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (387 pages; illustrated with 25 portrait photographs). This is a very good copy of the Fifth Impression of the First English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth is very faintly spotted, the spine is mildly faded, the contents are fine, with light, scattered foxing to the prelims and fore-edges only
Synopsis
Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people written by Winston Churchill. The original collection of 21 essays published in 1937 were mainly written between 1928 and 1931. Four were added to the book in the 1939 edition, about Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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- Bookseller
- Chartwell Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 141880
- Title
- GREAT CONTEMPORARIES -Later Impression of the First English Edition-
- Author
- Winston S. Churchill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Edition (Fifth Impression] (Cohen A105.1.e) (Woods
- Publisher
- Thornton Butterworth Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 8vo (387 pages; illustrated with
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