Great Companions: Critical Memoirs of Some Famous Friends

224pp, with a portrait plate frontispiece.  Green cloth board, gilt titles.  8vo.  Cloth is a little tired, gently rubbed around edges, and gently rounded at corners and ends of a sunned and ridged spine.  Boots Library label on upper panel.  Text block edges a little toned.  Hint of spotting on endpapers, with some pencilled notes on rear pastedown, else internally clean, neat and tight. American writer and political activist Max Eastman recalls is acquaintances, personal encounters and friendships with prominent people of the 20th century including Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, John Dewey, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Casals, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud etc.