Author: Woolf, Leonard. [Peter Stansky]
Title: Barbarians at the Gate. - Peter Stansky's Copy
Description: London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, Victor Gollancz's First UK Trade Edition published 1939. Not to be confused with the more commonly found 'Left Book Club' softcover edition published the same year. Bloomsbury Scholar, PETER STANSKY'S copy with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper Peter D L [David Lyman] Stansky and dated Cambridge 1953. 8vo. 221 pp. He co-wrote an engaging biography on Leonard Woolf entitled" Leonard Woolf Bloomsbury Socialist with Fred Leventhal. A very good copy in black covered boards, black with gilt titles to the spine.Dust jacket slightly browned on the spine, a little soiling and edge wear. 'Two weeks post-Munich Victor Gollancz wrote Leonard Woolf that tolerance, the open mind and freedom of thought were endangered and invited him to write a book with a title along the lines of, The Defence Of Western Civilization. On May 9, 1939, Leonard Woolf submitted his manuscript, Barbarians At The Gate". Luedeking & Edmonds A32a. .

Keywords: FIRST EDITION LEONARD WOOLF BLOOMSBURY HOGARTH PRESS Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Group


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