De MONTALK, GEOFFREY WLADISLAS VAILE POTOCKI [3 titles]
Social Climbers in Bloomsbury
Done from Life by Count Potocki of Montalk. London: The Right Review 1939. Unpaginated, [43]p, 215mms, original buff coloured card covers, with Māori motif, black titles. front cover detached and spine chipped. Count Potocki of Montalk was imprisoned for libel after a celebrated trial at which he was supported by Leonard Woolf. In the chapter of the book called “Quack Quack” Potocki records his meetings with the Woolfs in which Virginia seeks agreement on her belief that her husbands race was much more civilized than the English, Poticki replied that to be frank he did not at all agree. 2. Surprising Songs. Printed by the Right Review [1945]. Unpaginated. In this Potocki condemns in the foreword “Christianity and democracy”, he describes New Zealand as “Hell from which I fled at the very first possible moment". Original buff paper covers, with Maori motif, front cover detached and lacking paper spine. 3. Surprising Songs. An Odyssean tale in poetry. London: Columbia Press Ltd 1930, first edition. 220mm, original dark blue cloth gilt titles, faded spine and margins. Scarce.