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London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1937. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, increasingly scarce thus with a clean, unfaded binding protected by a first printing dust jacket. Great Contemporaries is Churchill's much-praised collection of insightful essays about 21 leading personalities of the day - including the likes of Lawrence, Shaw, and, most famously, Hitler. This copy is very good in a good plus dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is clean and tight, with deep, unfaded blue hue, no color shift between the covers and spine, and vivid spine and front cover gilt. Trivial shelf wear appears primarily confined to the spine ends and corners. The contents remain respectably bright with a crisp feel, though with intermittent spotting throughout and to the page edges. The blue-stained top edge retains strong, uniform hue. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms what the binding…