GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
by Winston S. Churchill
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
First US edition. 8vo in cloth. 299 pp. VG. Light wear; a little heavier at spine ends. Binding is strong. Text block is clean and tight. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships in a box packed with care.
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
- Lost Time (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051923-02
- Title
- GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
- Author
- Winston S. Churchill
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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