Quack by Woolf Leonard (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex-library. Inside front panel and FFEP discoloration, sticker residue and stamped "Discarded". Inside back panel, library pocket. Outside spine, library number written, head of spine frayed, worn corners, back and front cloth boards, mottled marking. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy in very good condition. 201 pages.

Condition: Sehr gut. Original green cloth binding with dust jacket, 201 pages, 4 plates, foxing to edges, otherwise a quite fresh copy, very good condition. The stunning dust jacket designed by E. McKnigt Kauffer also quite fresh, only tiny pieces missing at the top corner of the front cover and the lower corner near spine on the rear cover, otherwise the illustrations also very fresh and colourful, spine slightly sunned but also all colours still good and almost none of the usual aberarsions - an impressive, beautiful copy of the rare dust jacket, identical to the first edition, save for the printed price on the spine. Attack on fascism with a Note on Anti-Semitism. The dust jacket, especially in such good condition, is hard to find. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A near-fine copy, splendidly bound in finely woven brown cloth stamped brightly in silver lettering on the spine. Clean and tight throughout, virtually unread. With a discrete ink inscription to grandpa and grandma, dated Oct. 13, 1935. With the 4 black and white photographs of "Herr Hitler" and "Signor Mussolini" and their respective grotesque effigies. In a very good, original dust jacket printed in green and brown. With the price of $2.00 at the top of the inside front flap. Two closed lateral tears along the spine, but not particularly noticeable beneath the Mylar when the jacket is on the book. And a 3" separation at the bottom of the rear jacket fold, but unnoticeable when the jacket is in place, as the paper edges meet seamlessly. A collector's copy, uncommon in dust jacket. "This is a biting attack upon the quackery in our political and intellectual life, a passionate defense of Reason, a counterblast to the fake eloquence of Spenglers Hour of Decision. It subjects fantastic bombast, whether in action or in theory, to a penetrating analysis. There is, in this appeal of a distinguished modern philosopher and man of letters, a full-bodied and sonorous eloquence which seems to recall the voice of a classic Roman senator warning of the approach of barbarian hordes and bending the weight and wisdom of years to a painful, imperative task. The author shows, first, that there has been a revolt against reason in modern times, and that such a revolt is always a symptom of the breakdown of a civilization and the return to the superstitions and emotions of savages or primitive men." ( Dust jacket ) First Edition with "First Edition" on the copyright page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. Very tight copy. Review copy ink stamp on 3rd page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 201pp. Cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.