Winston S. Churchill | Great Contemporaries. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937

Winston S. Churchill

Great Contemporaries. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937

8vo. Illustrated with 21 portrait photographs; some faint and scattered foxing. Original blue cloth, original unclipped orange dust jacket printed in black; vintage ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some light foxing to endleaves and fore-edge; jacket toned, minor loss to jacket corners as well as head and tail of spine. In custom solander box.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUST JACKET

Churchill's highly entertaining collection of twenty-one political and literary profiles, beautifully written, brutally opinionated (Hitler comes off just a bit better than George Bernard Shaw). A handsome copy in the scarce jacket.

REFERENCE:

Cohen A105.1.a; Woods A43a