CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Great Contemporaries.
First Edition of Winston S. Churchill's Great Contemporaries; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1937.
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First edition of Churchill's classic work containing his biographies of George Bernard Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia, King George V, and Adolf Hitler among others. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt signature to the front panel, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with 21 photographic plates. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege.
Great Contemporaries.
$1,500.00
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