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London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1938. First revised and expanded edition. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the first revised and expanded edition of Churchill’s much-praised collection of insightful essays about leading personalities of the day. This book was part of the personal library of Churchill's bibliographer, Ronald Cohen. This edition, published in 1938 soon after the first edition of 1937, added four new essays (Fisher, Parnell, Baden-Powell, and - of great interest – Franklin D. Roosevelt). As is the case with the 1937 first edition, first printing, the dust jacket for the 1938 revised edition is both elusive and desirable – in our experience, even more elusive than that of the 1937 first edition – and the binding quite prone to sunning and dulling in its absence. This British first revised edition, first printing, is in exceptionally clean, near-fine condition in a very good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square, clean, unfaded, and tight with…