Woolf, Leonard — Barbarians at the Gate

London, England, Gollancz, 1939. Left Book Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a still handsome exemplar of the Left Book Club Edition, published in London by Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1939. Left Book Club Editions were Not For Sale to the Public, but sold by the subscription, and club pamphlet laid in! Measures 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" tall and wide, respectively. Bound in red cloth over boards with black lettering to front cover and spine. Moderate wear to edges, extremities. Even, moderate toning to text-block. Splitting of signature between pages 32 and 33. This is Leonard Woolf's then contemporary and quite prescient analysis of the forging and breaking of the pact between the then Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler's National Socialist regime and then of the Winston Churchill administration in the U.K. Woolf was one of the first of the Left Book Club selections openly to criticize Stalin and Soviet Union crack-downs on personal liberty. 221 pp. including Appendix.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good