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London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. [Political biographies] FIRST EDITION, Third Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 335. With twenty-one photographic portrait plates. Bound in publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt and blind, top edge tinted blue, typographic orange dust-jacket priced at 21s. Contents clean, some spotting to edges, no inscriptions, jacket with a some minor chips and small dampmark to crown. A very good copy indeed. This volume collects Churchill's classic series of essays on major world figures of the day, including: Lawrence of Arabia, George Bernard Shaw, Trotsky, Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler, and King George V.