1937: Pillars of Society, by A.G. Gardiner, The Wayfarer's Library

Pillars of Society, by A.G. Gardiner, The Wayfarer's Library, published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1937. 320 pages.

Softcover orange leather volume with gilt ornamentation on front cover, and gilt lettering on spine. Some wear and scratching on cover and spine, small stain in bottom right corner front cover. Visible small spot from price sticker on back cover. Owner inscribed in fading ink on inside front cover.

Separation from spine at title page. All pages present and intact. No writing or markings in the book aside from above-mentioned signature. Some slight fading to pages due to passage of time.

At the time of writing in 1916, the "Pillars of Society" described by Gardiner constituted:

King George V

Lord Kitchener

Mr. Roosevelt

Sara Bernhardt

Mr. Joseph Chamberlain

Lord Fisher

Prince Kropotkin

Lord Hugh Cecil

Mr. Asquith

Mr. Andrew Carnegie

Mr. Walter Long

The Jam Sahib of Nawanagar

Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson

Sir Edward Carson

Professor Geddes

Mr. F. E. Smith

Mr. St. Loe Strachey

Mr. Churchill

Lord Strathcona

Mr. Austen Chamberlain

Lord Courtney

Sir William Lever

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb

Archdeacon Lilley

Ser Wilfried Laurier

Lord Halsbury

Mr. J.L. Garvin

Lord Milner

Mr. James Bryce

President Woodrow Wilson

Mrs. Humphry Ward

Sir John Simon

Mr. Bonar Law

Mr. H.G. Wells

Mr. Lloyd George

Mr. G. W. E. Russell

Mr. Hilaire Belloc