GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-First English "Revised" Edition-
1938
First English "Revised" Edition
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A105.3.a) (Woods A43a)
8vo (387 pages, illustrated with 25 portrait photographs)
Hardcover without Dust Jacket [Blue cloth]
Item Number: 214478
$165.00
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.