Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Mariner Books. Used - Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs access codes etc. Mariner Books unknown
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: 00011404805 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Harvest Books 1956. modern edition facsimile of 1956 edition. softcover. fine. 12mo. white and black wraps. 248pp. . 9780156468992 Harvest Books paperback
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: 95952 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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ORWELL George.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1936. An exceptional association copy inscribed by Orwell to Anthony Powell Octavo. Original blue cloth titles to spine in blue. A very good copy light soiling with a little wear to the spine ends and rear joint and the faint remains of a Boots label to the front cover. First edition first impression. Signed by the author for fellow novelist Anthony Powell "Geo. Orwell" on the front endpaper with Powell's bookplate to the front pastedown. The first edition consisted of 3000 sets of sheets of which only 2500 were bound. Of these more than 200 were destroyed during the war. The book which "would eventually produce one of his Orwell's most substantial adult friendships" Taylor - Orwell The Life. Powell recalls buying this book and the friendship with Orwell which followed in the first volume of his autobiography Infants of the Spring 1976. "When Down and Out in Paris and London appeared in 1933 someone recommended it. I read the book and was impressed by its savagery and gloom. At the same time I cannot claim to have immediately marked down Orwell as a writer of whom one would obviously hear more. However a year or two later when I saw a copy of Keep the Aspidistra Flying in a secondhand bookshop I bought it. Again I liked the novel for its violent feelings and presentation of a young man at the end of his tether rather than for its form or style which seemed strangely old fashioned in treatment. I spoke of the book dining with Cyril Connolly. Connolly then told me Orwell was one of his oldest friends. He urged me to write a fan letter. This I did thereby making my first Orwell contact in 1936" Powell included a copy of his recently self published Caledonia and received a friendly if hesitant reply from Orwell. It was not until some five years later that they met in person whereafter they would meet and correspond regularly for the remainder of Orwell's life. An exceptional association copy. George Orwell was a parsimonious signer of his books and signed copies of his early novels especially are uncommon. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, hardcover
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: 103159
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Sound clean copy Penguin paperback
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: Feb204
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Harvest Books. Reprint. Paperback. pp. 248. 8vo. A few pencil marks price sticker to rear cover; very good. <br/><br/> Harvest Books paperback
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: 062923 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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Orwell George Author
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Penguin Classics 2000. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 7.72x0.71x5.04 inches. Penguin Classics paperback
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: __0141183721 ISBN : 0141183721 9780141183725
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Orwell George Author
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Penguin Classics 2014. Paperback. New. 288 pages. Penguin Classics paperback
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: __0141395478 ISBN : 0141395478 9780141395470
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying Uniform Edition
Secker & Warburg London 1954. Reprint. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Purple coloured tint to the top text edge. First published in 1936. The author's novel which is socially critical � of the 1930s. Set in London dealing with Gordon Comstock and his ambition not to worship the money God � and the dismal results of same. Softening of the backstrip edges with rubbing of the book edges. Scattered foxing to the book panels with very noticeable sunning of the backstrip. Age toning and scattered foxing to the textblock edges with age toning of the pages. Offset tanning and light foxing of the end pages. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Second Edition. Size: 12mo standard paperback. 7 8 - 303 1 pages. . Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain; 1930s; Inventory No: 0129175. . Secker & Warburg hardcover
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: 0129175
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Penguin Classics 2010. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Penguin Classics paperback
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: G0141194731I3N00 ISBN : 0141194731 9780141194738
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Mariner Books. Very Good-. 1969. Trade Paperback. 0156468999 . Shelfwear/edgewear on front cover back cover and spine; pages and inside of covers age-toned; top of spine bumped. ; 7.8 X 5.3 X 0.7 inches; 256 pages . Mariner Books paperback
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: 418609 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Popular Library G183
NY: Putnam 1957 Book has small light bump on top/bottom edges of spine. 221pp 3pp ads for other Putnam Titles. Stated 1st American Edition 1956 HB. 1st PB Ed. Popular Library/NY 1957 June. Square bright tight copy. No remainder mark. Crisp corners and edges clean margins. No internal names notes or markings. For the price of love. The price on the front cover is .35-cents. A very nice copy of a less famous Orwell work. USPS Tracking provided. First American Edition. Almost Fine/None. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Modern Literature. Putnam paperback
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: 23201
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
London: Secker & Warburg 1959. Early printing of Orwell's classic social criticism of money-worship and status. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Denis Piper. Owell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying centers on the story of Gordon Comstock and his romantic ambition to defy the worship of the money and status and the dismal life that results. Orwell wrote the book in 1934 and 1935 when he was living at various locations near Hampstead in London and drew on his experiences in these and the preceding few years. At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions sleeping rough and roaming in the poorer parts of London. The novel was adapted into a 1997 film of the same name directed by Robert Bierman and stars Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter. Secker & Warburg hardcover
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: 104830
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ORWELL George.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
London: Victor Gollancz 1936. Octavo 176 x 116 mm. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in burgundy morocco titles and decoration to spine gilt raised bands single rule to boards gilt decorative endpapers gilt edges. A fine copy. First edition first impression. London: Victor Gollancz, hardcover
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: 135765
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Harcourt Brace and Company . DJ in archival cover chip gift inscriptionStated first American edition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
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: 005749
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
NY: Harcourt Brace and Co. 1956. Green cloth binding stamped in silver and white. 248pp. Slight bit of wear and spine lightly color faded. Photos on request. First American Ed. So Stated. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Harcourt, Brace and Co. Hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 082435
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Secker & Warburg. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. Secker & Warburg unknown
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: GRP113662551
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform paperback
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: G150289159XI4N00 ISBN : 150289159X 9781502891594
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Mariner Books 1969-03-19. Paperback. Good. 0156468999 Some wear. Mariner Books paperback
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: AUG-16-GOOD-44496-JM ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Secker & Warburg. Used - Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Secker & Warburg unknown
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: GRP112173342 ISBN : 0436350068 9780436350061
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
London: Penguin Books 1989. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear ink line to bottom edge; good. <br/><br/> Penguin Books paperback
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: 057337 ISBN : 0140182330 9780140182330
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ORWELL George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
New York: Popular Library 1957. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 221pp 3pp ads. Near fine. Mildly age toned text block as usual else tight and bright. First paperback edition G193 of this "Popular Giant" softbound edition. Delightfully cheesy wrapper art. Lovely copy with almost no signs of wear. Popular Library paperback
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: 44604
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Orlando Florida: Harcourt Brace & Company 1956. Reprint . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. This modern reprint is unmarked square and tight with light reading wear and a minor stain to the fore edge. <br/> <br/> Harcourt Brace & Company paperback
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: 000063 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
New York: Popular Library 1957. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Rubbed at the surface a small chip to the head of the spine. Square and firmly bound with green page edges some spots of fading. Orwell's novel of two young lovers who buck against the demands of society. Adapted into the 1997 film starring Richard Grant and Helena Bonham Carter. Popular Library paperback
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: 2764
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Orwell George 1903 1950
Keep the aspidistra flying / George Orwell
London : Penguin in association with Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1975. Reprint. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 263p ; 18cm. Subjects; Wealth — Fiction. Advertising — Fiction. Writer's block — Fiction. London : Penguin in association with Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd paperback
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: 259592 ISBN : 0140016988 9780140016987
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ORWELL George
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
London: Gollancz 1936. Blue cloth lettered in black. Spine very lightly darkened; just a mite leaned; front free endpaper partially pasted down to front pastedown; crack in the gutter at the front fly leaf but quite firm; text paper lightly toned as always page edges yellowed; else a VG clean tight and unworn copy lacking the rare dust jacket. Only 3000 sets of sheets were printed of which 2500 were bound 2256 sold and more than 200 lost to the war. A comic novel about a wannabe poet who grudgingly works in a bookshop a good read. This first printing is quite scarce on the market in any condition. . First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Gollancz
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: 49653
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Orwell George Author
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Amereon House. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Hard Cover Green boards with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. Ex-library. American edition states it was first published in England 1936. Two library stamps one on the bottom edges one on the back end paper. Board edges show general shelfwear. Back hinge ha Amereon House hardcover
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: 784725
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Harcourt Brace 1956. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 sale item first American edition; 248 pp. original green cloth hardcover slight spine slant edges lightly rubbed else very good in a very good dust jacket Harcourt, Brace hardcover
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: ZB1115696
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Softcover. 248 pp. Harcourt Brace & World Inc. New York 1956. First American paperback edition. Third Printing thus per Number Line. $2.45 OP on front card. Bright clean unmarked copy has light edgewear and light scuffing to cards. No reader's creases to spine. One vertical crease on front card at spine and one diagonal crease to lower corner of rear card. Very Good to Near Fine. More photos on request. Shipped in a box with bubble wrap and media mail envelope with tracking number. Harcourt, Brace, & World paperback
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: BR-0518-756
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Penguin. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Spine is cracked. Slightly dampstained. Penguin unknown
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: SB05OS-00184
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
New York: Harcourt Brace 1956. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good Book/Very Good DJ. 248 Pp. First American Edition First Printing Lightly Used But Immaculate Book No Names Or Marks No Toning Or Foxing Slight Wear And Bumping To Corners. Dj Immaculate Not Price-Clipped 1/16" Shorter Than Book But Does Not Appear To Have Been Trimmed Wear And Bumping To Upper Corners With 1/2" Wide Almost 1/4" Deep Chip At Top Of Spine With 1/4" Closed Tear And Some Wrinkling Bumping To Upper Tips With 1/4" Closed Tear To Rear Tip Touch Of Wear At Lower Corners With Minuscule Losses Red Spine Title Faded To Yellow. <br/> <br/> Harcourt Brace hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 037648
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ORWELL George.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1936. A superb copy in the uncommon jacket Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in dark blue. With the dust jacket. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Bookseller's ticket to foot of rear pastedown. A superb copy with the spine very gently rolled light browning to spine ends and edges of book block in the unusually bright jacket with faint browning to spine and edges nicks to top edge. First edition first impression. The first edition consisted of 3000 sets of sheets of which only 2500 were bound. Of these 219 were destroyed in a bombing during the war. Uncommon in the jacket. Fenwick A4a. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, hardcover
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: 121391
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Popular Library G Series. NY: Popular Library Publishing. 1957 . G-193 very good - fine reading crease Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. paperback Popular Library G Series. NY: Popular Library Publishing. paperback
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: 234477
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Popular Library G Series. NY: Popular Library Publishing. 1957 . G-193 near fine unread but a small store stamp inside Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. paperback Popular Library G Series. NY: Popular Library Publishing. paperback
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: 234478
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Popular Library G Series. NY: Popular Library Publishing. 1957 . G-193 very good Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. paperback Popular Library G Series. NY: Popular Library Publishing. paperback
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: 234476
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Penguin 1066. Paperback. Fair. A fair paperback with underlined text pages ready to fall out signs of used wear. 264p 18X115cm. Penguin paperback
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: PA0239 ISBN : 0140182330 9780140182330
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
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: mon0001345631
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Orwell George Pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Penguin 1698 1698 1963 2nd printing. Mass market paperback Very good. . Pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair. . Fiction. Penguin 1698 paperback
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 908329
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying Library Edition
Blackstone Audio Inc. Audiobook CASSETTE. 0786103000 Ex-library. Comes in sturdy plastic case. Tapes are lightly used. Not remainder. Packaged carefully for shipping. Ships within 24 hours with tracking. Satisfaction guaranteed!! Sorry no APO/FPO. - Sorry no APO/FPO. . Good. Blackstone Audio, Inc. unknown
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: SKU1016489 ISBN : 0786103000 9780786103003
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
New York: Harcourt Brace. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1956. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. A nice clean tight copy with no marks signatures bookplates etc. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages . Harcourt, Brace hardcover
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: 395
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Wilmington Massachusetts U.S.A.: Mariner Books 1969. Wraps have light wear spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Mariner Books Paperback
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: 128310A ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
England: Penguin Books 1962. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good. Reading wear to the front hinge. Text is clean. 263 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6ž" - 7ž" tall <br/> <br/> Penguin Books paperback
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: 016595
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Harcourt Brace Jovanich Orlando FL 1969. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Used very good. No marking. light shelf wear. nice book. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0156468999. ISBN/EAN: 9780156468992. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: ABE532657787. . 9780156468992 Harcourt Brace Jovanich paperback
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: ABE532657787 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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ORWELL George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
NY:: Harcourt Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. First American edition. Very good in a very good some light foxing on verso and fore edges title lettering along the spine is a bit faded dust jacket. ; 248 pages . Harcourt, Brace and Company, hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 53619
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Secker 1954. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. The boards are marked and worn. One signature and a notation. A little tanning. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Secker hardcover
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: 181x ISBN : 0436350068 9780436350061
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Orwell George
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
San Diego CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Size=5.5"x8". full book description Harcourt Brace Jovanovich San Diego CA 1956. 1st EdAsSuch Later Printing VG Paperback No Dust Jacket. Size=5.5"x8" 248pgs. Tradesize paperback. Rear cover rubbed & scraped o.w. clean tight & bright. No ink names bookplates etc. Contents in Fine condition. ISBN 0156468999 SELLING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1987. WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE! Harcourt Brace Jovanovich paperback
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: CONROY159456I ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Harcourt Brace Jovanich Orlando FL 1969. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Used very good. No marking. light shelf wear with some werar on the lower spine. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0156468999. ISBN/EAN: 9780156468992. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560742214. . 9780156468992 Harcourt Brace Jovanich paperback
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: 1560742214 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992
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Orwell George
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
New York: Harcourt Brace & World Wraps have wear spine is creased. Previous owner name on half-title page. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. . Mass Market Paperback. Good -. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Ex-Libris. Harcourt Brace & World Paperback
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: 119145A
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Orwell George
Keeping Our Little Corner Clean: 1942-1943 Complete Orwell
2001-03-01. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
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: 0436404079 ISBN : 0436404079 9780436404078
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ORWELL George; pseudonym of BLAIR Eric Arthur:
KING CHARLES II. Typescript of an Unpublished School Play.
1932. Typescript comprising two sections: first three pages of carbon copy with Orwell's autograph pencil side-notes recording sound effects the name 'Geoffrey' written twice in red crayon; second twelve roneograph pages with some pencil markings probably in the hand of one of the boy actors Geoffrey Stevens 15 pages folio and 4to spindle holes some slight wear and creasing marginal fraying at outer leaves final leaf torn and reinforced; together with an original photograph of Orwell and his school at this time mounted and labelled. Housed in a purpose made quarter black morocco solander box. Provenance: Geoffrey Stevens; sold Sothebys London Dec. 15th 1988; Private Collection. This short historical play which is written partly in blank verse was composed by the twenty-nine-year-old Eric Blair when he was headmaster at the Hawthorns High School for Boys in Hayes Middlesex a small private school having little more than a dozen pupils as the accompanying photograph shows. It was performed as the school's Christmas play at St Mary's Church Hall in Hayes in 1932. This was in a period when Orwell had finished Down and Out in Paris and London or Days in London and Paris as it was originally titled and was looking for a publisher. He was working on Burmese Days and had only sought the job at Hawthorns because he needed an income. Fed up with his job and his lack of disposable income he then spent the best part of a term writing and rehearsing a school play for the boys to perform. With dramatic speeches noisy altercations involving stocks and pikes unlikely coincidences and some very theatrical dialogue it is little wonder that Geoffrey Stevens one of the boys who performed in the play enjoyed the experience considerably more than Orwell himself who referred to it in a letter to Eleanor Jacques on 19 October as 'a mucky play the boys are to act later'. By 18 November he could record: 'I have had to write & produce a play- am now in the throes of rehearsing it- & what is worst of all have had to make most of the suits of armour etc. for the boys to act it. For the last few weeks I have been suffering untold agonies with glue & brown paper etc.' Collected Essays Journalism and Letters 1968 I 102-105. Geoffrey Stevens whose copy this is remembers the undertaking more fondly: 'The performance lasted only half an hour but we spent hours in preparation finding props constructing the scenery etc. all of which he Orwell supervised closely. It was ambitious. He arranged for plywood doors on either side to have saw cuts made in them so that Cromwell's men could break them open with their pikes. It worked perfectly and made a great crashing noise coming down.' Orwell The Authorised Biography Michael Shelden 1991 p172. Orwell was seldom pleased with his work and destroyed the majority of his manuscripts. King Charles II while it lacks some of the literary merits of his published work has pastiche humour and a political message. Aside from Nineteen Eighty-Four less than half of which survives this would appear to be the only Orwell typescript in existence. It remains unpublished and this is the sole known copy. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. 1932 unknown
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: 10330
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ORWELL George.
Kolgosp Tvarin Animal Farm.
Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei 1947. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Housed in a cloth flat-back box. Staining to covers and contents light creasing to covers yet still a good copy of this fragile book. First Ukrainian edition and the first to include a preface by Orwell. A copy of the first English edition of 1945 fell into the hands of Ihor Shevchenko a son of Polish anti-Bolshevik nationalists who translated the work into Ukrainian. "In April 1946 Shevchenko wrote to Orwell a mourning widower and single parent of adopted baby at that time requesting authorization to publish his Ukrainian translation. He described to him how he had translated the book out loud to a transfixed audience of Ukrainian DPs displaced persons and they had always been puzzled how the West could be so naïve about the Soviet Union and wondered if anyone 'knew the truth'. He concluded: 'Your book has solved that problem. Refugees reacted to the underlying values of the book to the tale 'types' to the underlying convictions of the author and so on. Besides the mood of the book seems to correspond with their own actual state of mind'. While Animal Farm had been a message of hope to the Ukrainian DPs Shevchenko's letter was a message of hope to Orwell who enthusiastically agreed to a Ukrainian translation" Tatara. Orwell contributed a new preface which was his most extensive commentary on the story and his motives for writing it and which is often printed in modern editions of the book to this day. The translator is given pseudonymously as Ivan Cherniatync'kyi on the title page. Fenwick A.10.T25; Kalyna Tatara "George Orwell and the Ukrainian Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm" Ukrainian Institute 31/7/2012. Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei, hardcover
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: 133982
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