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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Great Contemporaries.
Publisher: London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937
Stock code: 46765
Price: £2,250 Currency Conversion
First edition, first impression. Series of essays on "Great Men of our age", which includes T. E. Lawrence, Trotsky and Hitler, "We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation and brought it back serene, helpful and strong, to the forefront of the European family circle." On receiving his advance copy, Neville Chamberlain wrote to Churchill immediately; "How you can go on throwing off these sparkling sketches with such apparent ease & such sustained brilliance, in the midst of all your other occupations is a constant source of wonder to me."
Octavo, original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. In the dust jacket. 21 plates. Endpapers differentially browned due to the presence of the jacket, small contemporary Danish bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown, spine of the jacket a little tanned and very slightly chipped at the head, in all other respects a very good copy indeed.
