QUACK, QUACK! by WOOLF, Leonard - 1935

Hogarth, London, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo - between 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 201 pp. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked and faded. Slight foxing to front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Politics & Government; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 33216. .

London,, 1935. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Clean and unmarked throughout with light foxing at endpapers and half-title. Slight lean at spine with light soiling and shelfwear at boards. Overall good condition.. 8vo. pp 201. Original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Four black and white illustrations.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Leonard Woolf (1880 - 1969) was an English author, publisher, and political theorist. This title is a criticism of fascism in which he mockingly compares Hitler and Mussolini to statues of Hawaiian war gods (pictures included). Includes an appendix with a note on anti-Semitism. Brown cloth boards with white title to spine. The title remains legible; however, some of the color has chipped off. Lacks front free endpaper. Old price marking in marker to half title page. Offsetting to endpapers and minor toning to margins, else clean. Very good condition. Includes four photographic illustrations. 201 pages.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Very tight copy. Review copy ink stamp on 3rd page.

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at Hogarth Press, 1937. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1937. Cheap Edition; Reprint. 193 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Contains four black and white photographic plates. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Minor foxing and one small liquid spot to upper text block edge. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Mild sunning to board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Moderate water stains to front board and spine. Book has a backward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Small loss to lower front panel affecting author's name. Mild water staining to panels and spine, mostly visible to underside. Mild tanning to spine. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

London: Hogarth Press, 1937. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. E. McKnight Kauffer (dust jacket illustration). Small 8vo. Pp. 193. With four black-and-white photograph reproductions. Bound in gray cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. A bright copy but for imprint of a paperclip on one leaf and two sun-bleached spots, head and tail of spine, that were not protected by the dust jacket. In the photo-montage dust jacket that shows edge-wear, a few chips (corresponding with faded cloth on spine; lower rear panel, a small triangle spot the size of a chickpea mid-spine). Please see photos.Laid in are four pieces of ephemera: three concern the 1977 sale of this copy by an Oxford antiquarian bookshop to author, Oxonian and career US diplomat Frederic Spotts. . A 1977 invoice, TLS and customs form are typed on the letterhead of Robin Waterfield Ltd., "Antiquarian Booksellers and Dealers in Literary Property," and addressed to Spotts at the US Embassy in Rome. This book is… Read More

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1937. 2nd Edition; 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Some faded spots of the cover of the book, which would otherwise grade "fine." the splendid, and very scarce, DJ has minor rubbing at the edges, some light surface soil, and a faded/sunned spine. This is the reprinted "cheap" edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 193 pages .

London: Hogarth Press, 1937. QUACK QUACK! Hogarth Press. Cheap Edition 1937 8vo. 193 pp. in gray cloth with black lettering stamped on spine housed in the Avant-Guard book jacket wrapper design by the American Artist E. McKnight Kauffer. This black photomontage with bold red black and blue was a very new style for the time. A few tiny nicks on the jacket and a light blue ink smear on the back. "The title of Quack, Quack! suggests the barnyard sounds of the orating Hitler and Mussolini. With devastating effect, Woolf matched photographs of the eye-bulging Hawaiian war god Kukailimoku to those of the gesticulating bellicose dictators. Woolf's two-hundred page attack on fascism concentrated on the savage quackery of modern totalitarianism but also discussed the intellectual sources he found in Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Spengler. Woolf's list of heroes who battled against the totalitarians for the light of civilization began with Erasmus and Montaigne and included Thomas More, Giordano Bruno, Spinoza,… Read More

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 201pp. Green cloth gilt. Scattered foxing on top edge, fore-edge, and endpapers, else a very good copy in about very good dust jacket. The pictorial dust jacket, illustrated with photomontage by E. McKnight Kauffer, has moderate wear with a tear at crown of spine causing partial loss to first few letters of printed title at crown, and a few short tears and nicks on front and rear panels, with long, narrow chip at lower edge of front panel. *Woolmer* 380: 2000 copies.