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Harmondsworth: PENGUIN BOOKS, 1939 VG P/b in D/j. The Lives of 12 famous historic People [Listed to D/j inner flap] 278pp+ publisher adverts. First Penguin printing 1939 Biography, Blue bands.No 230.A brilliant man of letters, the author died in 1930[ Note on author to rear d/j inner flap] VG/VG [ Book- browned paper, no inscsp. sound copy] some shelf wear & light markings, tan & dusting to spine] Dust Jacket not price clipped 6d., a crease line across front cover, across the spine & rear,.Edge wear col/rub/loss max to spine top.Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.

New York: The Press of The Reader's Club, 1941. First Reader's Club Edition, 1941. With Foreword by Alexander Woollcott and Author's Introduction. First published 1929 by Simon and Schuster. Near Fine, light toning to end pages and spine, in a Near Fine dust jacket, Reader's Club promotional and ordering card tipped to front flap, as issued, and very light edge wear. SCARCE in either edition in dust jacket, particularly so in one so lovely. The twelve subjects are Alexander the Great. -- Casanova. -- Christopher Columbus. -- Mahomet. -- Lola Montez. -- Cagliostro (and Seraphina). -- Charles XII of Sweden. -- Napoleon I. -- Lucius Sergius Catiline. -- Napoleon III. -- Isadora Duncan. -- Woodrow Wilson. William Bolitho Ryall (1891–1930), died a year after the publication of this book, at the age of 39."We are born adventurers, and the love of adventures never leaves us till we are very old; old, timid men, in whose interest it is that adventure should quite die out. This is why… Read More