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Orwell George
Animal Farm
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. Original black cloth with bold gilt spine lettering. Book has only minor crumpling at spine ends and wear at corners. Unpriceclipped dust jacket designed by Art Brenner is worn joints flap folds and chipped at spine ends and on edges. Lower panel of jacket a little yellowed and soiled. A nice first edition copy of this classic. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. Harcourt, Brace and Company Hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : W098GO
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Orwell George
Animal Farm.
London: Secker & Warburg 1945. First British edition of Orwell's timeless allegorical novel-- a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism. Octavo original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. The dust jacket has the Early List for 1945 to the rear panel and the Search light motif in red to the reverse of the jacket. The jacket has a stated price of 6s. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example of this classic Orwellian tale. "A political fable that partly recounts in an allegorical mode the aftermath of the Russian revolution and partly illustrates a belief in the universal tendency of power to corrupt" Stringer 22." Animal Farm is Orwells masterpiece" Connolly 93. Time Magazine chose it as one of the 100 best English-language novels 1923 to 2005; it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 97542
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Orwell George
Animal Farm. KOLGHOSP TVARYN. Ukrainian edition.
Munich: Prometheus; Prometej 1947. Book. Very Good condition. Paperback. First thus edition. Octavo 8vo. 91 pages. Original paperback binding with minimal shelfwear including minor scuffing to the closed page edges; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. The first page has small tears starting near the staples. Translated by Igor Shevchenko under the pseudonym John Chernyatynskyy. Includes a black and white photographic portrait of George Orwell. In March 1947 Shevchenko printed around 5000 copies to distribute among Ukrainian refugees in the displaced persons camps of postwar Germany and Austria. But only an estimated 2000 books distributed. U.S. Soldiers suspecting the books of being anti-Stalin propaganda confiscated about 3000 and handed them over to Soviet authorities who had them destroyed. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition in Ukrainian. Prometheus; Prometej Paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 019563
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Orwell George
ANIMAL FARM: A Fairy Tale
Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2003. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition a volume in The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series. Signed by Kim Stanley Robinson who wrote the introduction and illustrator Frank Kelly Freas on the title page. Orwell's satiric fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong. Collector's Notes laid in. Octavo. Full red leather binding with elaborate gilt stamping three raised bands decorative endpapers and a ribbon marker. A fine copy. The Easton Press hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 70797
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Orwell George
Animal Farm; A Fairy Tale
Norwalk CT: Easton Press 2004. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Octavo 118pp. Full red leather title in gilt on spine. Decorative gilt design on cover and spine. All gilt edges silk endpapers and silk bookmark. A fine example. Easton Press unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 10791
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Orwell George
Burmese Days
Harper and Brothers 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good first US edition so stated on the copyright page. Short teat on front free endpaper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 1511006
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Orwell George
Burmese Days
London: Victor Gollancz 1935. First British Edition. Very Good. First British edition first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding with titles on spine lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and worn bumped at the crown. Rear hinge repaired. Contents toned and foxed. Victor Gollancz originally rejected this novel publishing it only after the success of the American edition the previous year. Victor Gollancz unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 140938436
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Orwell George
Burmese Days
New York: Harper and Brothers 1934 First edition first printing. One of 2000 copies. Publisher's red-orange cloth lettered in black pictorial pale yellow floral endpapers; in the original yellow dust jacket lettered in black and red-orange. Book about fine with only a hint of wear to the extremities else bright and clean; price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and chipping to the extremities minor toning to the spine a hint of light soiling to the otherwise fresh panels. Overall a near fine and very attractive copy of this extremely scarce title very rare in the dust jacket. This first American edition of Burmese Days is the true first printing of Orwell's second work and first novel. Victor Gollancz initially rejected the controversial novel but agreed to publish the first British edition in 1935 after the success of the American edition and making several edits to the text. Notably Orwell would later call the Gollancz edition "garbled" and when Penguin prepared its first edition in 1940 he insisted that the publishers use the American text rather than the English. An extremely scarce title in any condition this copy of Burmese Days is especially rare because of its excellent condition and lack of any repairs or restoration. Based on Orwell's experiences serving in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 Burmese Days is set in colonial Burma that the publisher's tout as a "cynical sometimes brutal answer to the Rudyard Kipling 'white man's burden' school of novelists - a caustic portrait of the white man in the East as he really is." Specifically it tells the story of the conflicted timber merchant John Flory who struggles to reconcile his belief in British superior with his appreciation of the Burmese people and culture. Interestingly while English publishers Victor Gollancz Jonathan Cape and William Heinemann all declined to publish Burmese Days for fear of a libel suit from officers in the British colonies American publisher Harper & Brothers flaunted the novel' controversial subject matter. Indeed as the dust jacket boldly proclaims on the front panel "If the prophet is unsung in his own country the truth-teller also is rarely welcome in his home town.". 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York: Harper and Brothers hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : GO016
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Orwell George
Burmese Days.
New York: Harper & Brothers 1934. First American edition and true first preceding the British edition by one year of Orwell's first novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper to Mabel Fierz "With very best wishes from Eric Blair." It was Mabel Fierz who introduced Orwell to Leonard Moore who would later become his literary agent after salvaging the manuscript for Down and Out from the writer's discarded papers. After first meeting Orwell in Southwold Suffolk Mabel and her husband Francis became close friends with the writer and often invited him to stay at their house in Golders Green. On one such occasion Orwell gave Mabel the manuscript which had just been rejected by Faber and telling her to save only the paperclips said she should throw it away. Instead she took it in person to Moore who in turn took it to Gollancz. In gratitude thereafter Orwell presented Mabel with signed copies of all his published works. Mabel Fierz authorial inscription typed letter signed by Mabel's son Adrian Fierz loosely inserted. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Burmese Days was several years in the writing. Orwell was drafting it in Paris during the time he spent there from 1928 to 1929. He was still working on it in 1932 at Southwold while doing up the family home in the summer holidays. By December 1933 he had typed the final version and in 1934 he delivered it to his agent Leonard Moore for publication by Victor Gollancz who had published his previous book. Gollancz smarting from fears of prosecution from another author's work turned it down because he was worried about charges of libel. Heinemann and Cape turned it down for the same reasons. After demanding alterations Harpers were prepared to publish it in the United States where it made its debut in 1934. In the spring of 1935 Gollancz declared that he was prepared to publish Burmese Days provided that Orwell was able to demonstrate it was not based on real people. Extensive checks were made in colonial lists that no British individuals could be confused with the characters. Many of the main European names have since been identified in the Rangoon Gazette and U Po Kyin was the name of a Burmese officer with him at the Police Training School in Mandalay. Gollancz brought out the English version on 24 June 1935. Harpers brought out Burmese Days in the US on 25 October 1934 in an edition of 2000 copies. In February 1935 just four months after publication 976 copies were remaindered. The only American review that Orwell himself saw in the New York Herald Tribune by Margaret Carson Hubbard was unfavourable: "The ghastly vulgarity of the third-rate characters who endure the heat and talk ad nausea of the glorious days of the British Raj when fifteen lashes settled any native insolence is such that they kill all interest in their doings." A positive review however came from an anonymous writer in the Boston Evening Transcript for whom the central figure was "analyzed with rare insight and unprejudiced if inexorable justice" and the book itself praised as full of "realities faithfully and unflinchingly realised." On its publication in Britain Burmese Days earned a review in the New Statesman from Cyril Connolly as follows: "Burmese Days is an admirable novel. It is a crisp fierce and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian. The author loves Burma he goes to great length to describe the vices of the Burmese and the horror of the climate but he loves it and nothing can palliate for him the presence of a handful of inefficient complacent public school types who make their living there. I liked it and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a spate of efficient indignation graphic description excellent narrative excitement and irony tempered with vitriol." Orwell received a letter from the anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer as follows "Will you allow me to tell you how very much indeed I admire your novel Burmese Days: it seems to me an absolutely admirable statement of fact told as vividly and with as little bitterness as possible." It was as a result of these responses that Orwell renewed his friendship with Connolly which was to give him useful literary connections a positive evaluation in Enemies of Promise and an outlet on Horizon. He also became a close friend of Gorer. In 2013 the Burmese Ministry of Information named the new translation by Maung Myint Kywe of Burmese Days the winner of the 2012 Burma National Literature Award's "informative literature" translation category. The National Literary Awards are the highest literary awards in Burma. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 67096
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Orwell George
COMING UP FOR AIR
London: Secker & Warburg 1948. First Thus. Hardcover. Small Octavo; 237 pages; G/G; Green spine with Black text; Fully bound in green cloth with red text; Dustjacket protected by mylar covering fraying and small open tears along spine edges and at corners brown spots on front cover marking in pencil on rear cover price clipped; Boards have browning along head edge of rear cover discoloration along edges; Textblock has light foxing along hinge between rear endpaper and pastedown; Shelved Hardcover Fiction. 1338777. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 1338777
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Orwell George
Coming Up for Air
London: Gollancz 1939. Second edition same month as very rare first edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. A very good second impression published in the same month June 1936 as the very rare first impression which was published in an edition of only 2000 copies. In the extraordinarily rare dust jacket in the same format as the first edition jacket but with quotes from early reviews and 2nd Edition stated on the front of the jacket. Some repairs to jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's cloth clamshell case. Gollancz hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 2011506
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Orwell George
COMING UP FOR AIR.
New York: Harcourt Brace 1950. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 278 pages. Hardcover binding with minor sunning to the spine and minimal shelfwear. The original unclipped dustjacket has a small chip to the top of the spine is lightly to moderately browned on the spine and top of the rear panel and is slightly shelfworn; protected in archival mylar.The text is clean and unmarked. George Orwell 1903-1950. No statement of edition on copyright page: First American edition. Harcourt, Brace Hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 9042baZ1
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Orwell George
Critical Essays.
London: Secker and Warburg 1946. First edition of Orwell's essential collection of literary criticism. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. In these essays Orwell applies to writers as diverse as Dickens Kipling Frank Richards and P. G. Wodehouse a new method of critical analysis. The essays are not political tracts their main emphasis is literary but they open with the assumption that every writer is in some sense a propagandist and that subject-matter imagery even tricks of style are governed by the "message" that the writer is attempting to put across. Secker and Warburg hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 119076
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ORWELL George
DICKENS DALI & OTHERS; Studies in popular culture
NY: Reynal & Hitchcock 1946. First American edn. 8vo pp. 243. A VG tight copy in somewhat worn and mended dj. Reynal & Hitchcock unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 41085
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Orwell George
Down and Out in Paris and London
New York: Harper & Brothers 1933. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Publisher's mauve cloth with black and purple spine decorations; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with boards lightly splayed. Cloth toned worn and soiled. Pages toned. Orwell's first published novel a semi-autobiographical work which much as the title promises details hunger and poverty in two major European capitals. Harper & Brothers unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 140941404
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Orwell George
Down and Out in Paris and London
New York: Harper & Brothers 1933. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Publisher's mauve cloth with black and purple spine decorations; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with spine faded and lightly worn at ends covers lightly scuffed. Pages toned. A lovely copy of Orwell's first published novel a semi-autobiographical work which much as the title promises details hunger and poverty in two major European capitals. Harper & Brothers unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 140940543
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Orwell George
Down and Out in Paris and London
New York: Harper & Brothers 1933. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Publisher's mauve cloth with black and purple spine decorations. Very Good with lean to spine previous owner address stamp to front free endpaper and toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with chipping and several short tears at the edges rubbing and several small chips to the folds and light toning to spine. A lovely copy of Orwell's first published novel a semi-autobiographical work which much as the title promises details hunger and poverty in two major European capitals. Harper & Brothers unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 140939547
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Orwell George
Down and Out in Paris and London
New York: Harper & Brothers. 1933. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good copy with just a trace of wear at spine ends in price clipped dust jacket with ¼" chipping at head of spine not affecting lettering and at bottom of spine obscuring "Harper" and with small chip at head of front panel. The dust jacket was once backed with tape removed by a conservator leaving only slight toning in a few areas and mild Japanese paper strengthening at folds. 1st US edition of the author's first book one of the great hobo novels of our time. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pp . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 28480
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ORWELL George
Down and Out in Paris and London
NY:: Berkley Publishing Corp. Very Good. 1967. Paperback. S1254. Fifth printing thus mass market paperback. Light edge wear previous owner's name on verso of front cover else very good in illustrated wraps. . Berkley Publishing Corp., paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 52880
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Orwell George
George Orwell: Animal Farm Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Coming Up for Air Keep the Aspidistra Flying Nineteen Eighty-Four: Complete & Unabridged
New York: Octopus/Heinemann 1980. Hardcover. Very good. 925pp. Lightly edgeworn else a very good hardback in a lightly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. <br/><br/> Octopus/Heinemann hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 48629 ???????? : 0905712048 9780905712048
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ORWELL George
Homage to Catalonia
London: Secker & Warburg 1938. First. hardcover. very good. 8vo light green cloth. London: Secker & Warburg 1938. First Edition.<br/><br/> The boards are lightly soiled; offsetting to the flyleaves light wear to the corners & the extremes of the spine text uniformly toned. Nevertheless a very good solid copy of a classic book.<br/><br/> Secker & Warburg unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 282471
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Orwell George
JAMES BURNHAM AND THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION
Berkeley California: Berkeley Young Socialist League 1955. Wraps. Very good. Likely the first separate American printing of this essay which was first published in the May 1946 issue of Polemic. In this critical discussion Orwell born Eric Arthur Blair 1903-50 acknowledges that the general drift has "almost certainly been towards oligarchy" and "an increasing concentration of industrial and financial power" but criticizes the tendency of Burnham's "power-worship" and comments upon the failures in analysis that arise from it. As biographer Michael Shelden observed "Orwell was always at his best when he was on the attack and his Polemic essay on Burnham is a brilliant criticism of the whole concept of power worship." Preceded by publisher's remarks by James Robertson of the Berkeley Young Socialist League the influential leftist campus group. The recto of the rear wrapper includes the YSL Statement of Principles along with a mailing form with the organization's Berkeley and New York addresses. Mimeographed 2 15 p. Original mimeographed blue paper wrappers 8 ½" x 11" bound with staples. Some general toning to the wrappers with offsetting to the rear panel; else very good. Berkeley Young Socialist League unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 72629
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ORWELL George
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution
London: Socialist Book Centre 1946. First Edition. One of 3000 copies. Slim octavo 21.5cm; original stapled wrappers; 20pp. Starting oxidation to staples hint of tanning to text edges else a bright Fine copy. First separate appearance of an essay which first appeared in Polemic 3 under the title "Second Thoughts on James Burnham." Orwell provides a critical appraisal of American philosopher and political theorist James Burnham's 1941 work The Managerial Revolution in which Burnham lists four "managerial ideologies": Leninism-Stalinism Fascism-Nazism New Dealism and Technocracy. Orwell's forthcoming novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was based on many of the themes found in Burnham's book. FENWICK D.2.a. Socialist Book Centre unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 44353
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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 books
书商的参考编号 : 53619
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Orwell George
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1992. Hardcover. Octavo 314 pages; VG; bound in fine black genuine leather with bright gilt spine title and gilt decorative motif to covers; gilt text block; silk ribbon; silk endpapers; shelved case 9 3/4. 1336688. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Easton Press hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 1336688
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Orwell George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
London: Secker & Warburg 1949 First edition first printing. Publisher's light green cloth top edge stained red; in the original green dust jacket designed by Michael Kennard issued simultaneously in green without any priority between them lettered in white. Near fine with some light fading along edges and a few minor spots to the fore-edge; in an unclipped jacket with some wear and rubbing to the spine spine chipped with some minor loss several small chips along upper panel edges and rubbing along folds. A very good completely unrestored copy. Fenwick A12.a Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel about a dystopian future in the year 1984. In the future Orwell has created the totalitarian government controls the civilian population with a detailed system of mental and physical control including omnipresent two-way TV screens that keep the citizens under constant surveillance. Any criticism of the government is strictly illegal and independent thought is persecuted as a "thoughtcrime." Even the newly adopted language "newspeak" which abbreviates many phrases and eliminates words deemed inessential served "not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view" of the new totalitarian regime but also "to make all other modes of thought impossible
. that is a thought diverging from the state approved principles
should literally be unthinkable in so far as though is dependent on words." This first British edition was published five days before the first American edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London: Secker & Warburg hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : GO027
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Orwell George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1949. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. iv 314 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black and crimson stamping. Fine in Near Fine unclipped $3.00 dust jacket with darkened and lightly stained spine panel lightly worn along edges but generally bright and clean. Faint musty odor. An attractive copy of the first American appearance of Orwell's classic of dystopian literature. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 140940172
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Orwell George
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Secker & Warburg; London 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A near fine first edition First Published 1949 on the copyright page in a very good green dust jacket with the original price still present and with a wrap-around band advertising the book. Old small bookstore sticker on front free end paper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Secker & Warburg; London hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 1508141
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Orwell George
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript.
Weston Massachusetts: M & S Press 1984. Limited edition of the manuscript in facsimile of Orwell's masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. Large folio one of 275 copies bound in one quarter navy Niger goat over marbled boards by Gray Parrot with gilt titles to the spine this is number 105. Edited by Peter Davison. Preface by Daniel G. Siegel. In fine condition. Housed in the custom buckram slipcase which is in fine condition. Written while Orwell suffered severely from tuberculosis and published shortly before the disease claimed his life the novel is a work "of hectic devilish claustrophobic intensity. nightmarish in the telling" Clute & Nicholls 896. In 2005 the novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Named as one of Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century. "It is quite simply a novel which has changed the world" Pringle 100 Best Science Fiction Novels 1. M & S Press hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 117730
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Edited by Peter Davison. Preface by Daniel G. Siegel
Weston MA: M & S Press 1984. Privately Printed Limited and Numbered Edition. Copy number 9 of fifty-five copies fully bound by Gray Parrot with a special design in royal blue and black Niger goat and housed in a one-quarter leather traycase. The printing and binding were completed in the fall of 1984. Folio10 inches by 14 inches i-xxvi 381 pages comprising a facsimile of the original Nineteen Eighty-Four manuscript on each recto and the edited typescript draft on the facing verso. With gilt-stamping to the front board reading†War is Peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strengthâ€. Beautiful as new condition. One of the only George Orwell manuscripts extant published here in full facsimile with transcript notes by poet publisher and Orwell historian Peter Davison. As Davison notes in his introduction: “This facsimile reproduces all that is known to have survived of the preliminary drafts of Nineteen Eighty-Four that is about 44% of the published text of the novel.†Furthermore he writes: “Despite all the rewriting revealed by this facsimile it is remarkable how closely what has survived adheres to the main sweep of the narrative of Nineteen Eighty-Four. All the principle features except the Appendix on Newspeak are present suggesting that the story had been pretty fully formed in Orwell’s mind by the time he sat down to write it out. What can now be seen for the first time is in Sonia Orwell’s words her husband’s ‘actual working methods’. These are a compelling demonstration of the way Orwell fashioned and refashioned his story perfecting language and thought in order to create one of the most remarkable novels of the twentieth century.†The preface by bookseller rare book collector and ABAA member Daniel Siegel details not only how the manuscript came to be his but offers insight into the art and craft of literary serendipity and is a delight to read. He tells the story of his relationship with the Orwell manuscript beginning with how in late spring of 1969 Harold Graves of Scribner’s rare book department in New York introduced him to the piece about which Siegel notes “The leaves Harold showed me were nondescript handwritten in ink or typed with a great deal of overwriting on the typed pages. Much seemed illegible.†Siegel was obviously intrigued by the manuscript but walked away without it. However as kismet would have it on the following day he telephoned Graves with the news that“It’s a great manuscript and I don’t know why I shouldn’t have it.†And so he did. Eventually Siegel donated the Nineteen Eighty-Four manuscript to Brown University. M & S Press hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 20790E
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Orwell Reader: Fiction Essays and Reportage
NY:: Harcourt Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Introduction by Richard H. Rovere. First edition. Stray pen mark on fore edge else very good in a very good minor edge wear small closed snag on rear panel dust jacket. . Harcourt, Brace and Company, hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 65928
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Politics and the English Language. An essay. Printed as a Christmas Keepsake for The Typophiles
Evansville IN: Herbert W. Simpson 1947. First edition printed as a Christmas keepsake for the friends of the publisher of perhaps Orwell's most important essay reflections on doublespeak the mendacious misuse of language which Orwell fictionalized in Nineteen Eighty-Four but which despite Orwell's analysis seems to be as popular not to say pandemic today as ever. Issued as Typophile Monograph XIX. Fine copy. 12mo illustrations original printed wrappers stapled as issued. Fine copy. Herbert W. Simpson) unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 22262
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Orwell George
Samizdat Nineteen Eighty-Four
First Edition. Very Good. Early unattributed and bibliographically unknown Czech samizdat edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. Carbon copy sheets printed on rectos only bound in cloth covered boards with white plastic brads. 2 2-205 p. 15 mis-paginated: 16. Very Good with light soiling to covers. First and last several pages are worn and damaged with no loss to text. Pages sporadically stained throughout. <br /> <br /> A relic of dissident activity from the Communist-controlled Eastern Bloc wherein individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications or "samizdat" often by hand circulating these documents from reader to reader. The perfect novel to be found in samizdat format: Nineteen Eighty-Four was banned and prohibited to be published in communist countries for its strongly anti-totalitarian message. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 140940731
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Orwell George
Shooting An Elephant and Other Essays
London: Secker and Warburg 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. viii 212 pp. Publisher's green cloth lettered in red. Very Good with sunning to spine cloth light wear and a little foxing to cloth jacket unclipped spine panel sunned Very Good. A collection of essays demonstrating the acclaimed wit and insight of the British writer best-known for his dystopian novels including "Politics and the English Language" "Reflections on Gandhi" the titular essay and "I Write as I Please. Secker and Warburg hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 140941369
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Orwell George
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT AND OTHER ESSAYS
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1950. Cloth. First US edition 4000 copies printed. A bright near fine copy in good price-clipped dust jacket with a few creased tears some chips at the spine ends and some tanning to the spine panel on the verso. FENWICK D.3b. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT75718
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Orwell George
The English People
London: Collins 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition./fine. Bound in publisher's original green paper covered boards printed in white. From the Britain in Pictures series. 8 plates in colour and 17 illustrations in black & white. Some offsetting to front and rear free end papers as usual otherwish fine. <br/><br/> Collins hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 9026524
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Orwell George
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
London: Searchlight Books 1941. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 127 pp. Original cloth green spine lettering. Near Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with toning to spine panel and top edge light wear Very Good. A nice copy. Three great essays by Orwell: "England Your England" "Shopkeepers at War" and "The English Revolution. Searchlight Books unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 140938363
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Orwell George
The Road to Wigan Pier
New York: Victor Gollancz 1937. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Left Book Club edition printed in wraps before the trade edition. xxiv 264 pp. Orange wraps lettered in black. About Very Good with typical bubbling to front wrap creasing and a bit of fraying to spine edges a little soiled bookplate on verso of front wrap. Includes three copies of the 4 pp. Left Book club ad laid in. <p>Orwell's examination of the downtrodden British working class and how politics specifically revolutionary socialist politics relates-- or rather really should-- relate to it. Photo-illustrated a la Let Us Now Praise Famous Men which it preceded. Victor Gollancz unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 140941370
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Orwell George
The Road to Wigan Pier
Gollancz 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good first edition in a complete and slightly restored original and very rare dust jacket. One of only 2150 copies of the first edition. Housed in a handsome clamshell case with leather spine and corners and gold lettering and decoration. Gollancz hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 1906003
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Orwell George
The War Commentaries
London: Duckworth/BBC 1985. Edited with an introduction by W. J. West. 248p. original black cloth. Duckworth/BBC unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 005564 ???????? : 0715620738 9780715620731
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Orwell George pseud of Eric Blair
ANIMAL FARM
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. Gilt black cloth. First U.S. edition. Spine lettering rubbed in a few places a few faint marks on boards otherwise very good in an imperfect dust jacket showing some edgewear and rubbing and a couple of long creased tears in the lower panel. MODERN MOVEMENT 93. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT45106
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Orwell George pseud of Eric Blair
ANIMAL FARM A FAIRY STORY
Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books 1951. Orange and white wrappers. First Penguin edition 60000 copies printed. Toe of spine faintly bumped light dust-soiling to wrappers else very good. FENWICK A10h. Penguin Books unknown books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT39207
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Orwell George pseud of Eric Blair
DICKENS DALI & OTHERS STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1946. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Toe of spine darkened otherwise a very good copy in heavily worn and chipped dust jacket. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT36941
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Orwell George & Peter Davison ed.
George Orwell: A Life in Letters.
Liveright 2010. First edition first printing. Smudge to lower edge else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Liveright, 2010. First edition, first printing. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : Embry 182521
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Orwell George and Andrzej K. Drucki pseud. of Marcin Krol translator
Eseje Essays
Krakow: Wydawnictwo "Odnowa" 1981. Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers; 47 1 leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. Small tear to rear wrapper; last page loose. Still about very good. A samizdat collection of critical and literary essays by George Orwell translated by the Polish political philosopher and historian Marcin Król 1944-2020. Orwell wrote a good deal about Poland during and after WWII with his generally sympathetic tone especially on the question of Polish refugees settling in post-war Britain much appreciated and discussed in Polish circles. Król also provided the introduction to the collection which originally appeared in the émigré political quarterly "Aneks" in an issue especially dedicated to Orwell no. 6 1974. At the time of publication most of the selected essays were appearing in Polish for the first time. Published in Paris/London 1973-1989 "Aneks" was founded by the Polish émigré generation of 1968 and was dedicated to creating "an independent journalistic forum for the intelligentsia in Poland and outside of it." Polish translations published in "Aneks" in London often served as base texts for underground reprints in Poland as is the case with this edition.<br/><br/>As of December 2020 KVK OCLC show the copies at IISG Amsterdam Connecticut and Cornell. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 51111
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Orwell George and Anna Husarska translator
Eseje: wybór Essays: selections
London: Puls Publications 1985. 12mo 14 Ã 9.5 cm. Original printed card wrappers; 291 2 pp. Very good. First edition. A collected volume of George Orwell's 1903-1950 critical philosophical and political essays spanning his literary career 1931-1949 with many of the essays appearing in Polish translation for the first time. Orwell wrote a good deal about Poland during and after WWII with his generally sympathetic tone especially on the question of Polish refugees settling in post-war Britain much appreciated and discussed in Polish circles. This volume includes essays on literature under totalitarianism remarks on Mein Kampf Orwell's recollections of the Spanish Civil War writings on nationalism and Antisemitism in Britain. It also includes Orwell's reflections on other writers such as Zamyatin Tolstoy Shakespeare and Sartre. <br/><br/>The award-winning journalist and activist Anna Husarska completed the translation for Puls. In addition to translation work Husarska was the editor of a Polish opposition daily Gazeta Wyborcza prior to writing for The New Yorker and The New Republic. Husarska admits that translating Orwell had a major impact on her own writing. "I try to imitate him and before turning in any piece I have written I give it an 'Orwell read' and eliminate all the pretentious or boring words. Plus I check my pieces for political decency if you see what I mean" See interview with Husarska in Robert Snyder ed. Reporting the Post-communist Revolution pp. 45-58. Includes an introduction by the literary critic Maciej BroÅski. <br/><br/>As of December 2020 KVK OCLC show copies in Zurich Cambridge The British Library Oxford National Library of Scotland National Library of Israel Michigan and Stanford. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 51110
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Orwell George and Julius Mieroszewski translator
1984: PowieÅÄ 1984: a novella
Pariz: Instytut literacki 1953. Octavo 20 à 13.5 cm. Original printed card wrappers; 254 2 pp. Very good. First Polish translation of this Orwell classic by the prominent journalist and activist Julius Mieroszewski 1906-1976. The novel was banned in Communist Poland with the first official translation appearing only in 1988. This translation for the Polish émigré community was published in Paris in 1953 and served as the base text for numerous underground or "second circulation" editions in Poland throughout the 1980s. <br/><br/>During WWII Mieroszewski worked for the Polish Government in Exile eventually settling in London and famously writing for the English section of the Polish émigré journal "Kultura" which was based in Paris. Mieroszewski was himself a socialist and much like Orwell strongly opposed the Soviet Communist dictatorship thereby being especially well suited to translating this work as well as the works of other socialist writers such as Bertrand Russell and Arnold Toynbee. <br/><br/>Scarce in the trade. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 51109
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ORWELL George and Reginald Reynolds. eds.
British Pamphleteers Volume One: from the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution.
London: Allan Wingate 1948. First edition. 263 pp w/appendix. Non-editorial gift inscription to front free endpaper else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. Illustrated. Orwell contributes a ten page introduction. London: Allan Wingate, unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 63804
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Orwell George Author; Orwell Sonia Editor; Angus Ian Editor
THE COLLECTED ESSAYS JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL: AN AGE LIKE THIS 1920-1940/ MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR LEFT 1940-1943/ AS I PLEASE 1943-1945/ IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES 1945-1950 4 VOLUME SET
New York: Harcourt Brace and World Inc 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 574 477 435 and 555 pages; VG-/G; yellow red blue and green pines with black and white lettering; prices uncut "$8.95" on volumes 1 2 and 4 "$7.95" on volume 3; shelf wear and chipping to the edges of the dust jacket staining on dust jackets and text blocks; paperclip impression and staining from page 33 to 46 of volume 1 pages of volume 2 and 3 clean some underlining in volume 4; shelved above Literary Criticism. 1332753. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 1332753
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Orwell George Blair Eric Arthur
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
The Easton Press 2017. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. Mayer Bill. Signed by illustrator. Limited edition one of 1200 copies. Signed by Bill Mayer without inscription on limitation page. 2017 Full-Leather. 218 pp. Brown full leather gilt and green titles and decorations all edges gilt marbled endpapers ribbon marker bound in. 10 tipped in color plates by Bill Mayer produced specially for this edition. A satirical look at Soviet totalitarianism using animals on a farm as an allegorical device. The revision of history by those in power is a theme that returns in Orwell's famous dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. While the setting of Animal Farm does not quite fit the parameters of a dystopian society Orwell's work here seems to progress directly toward the speculations about future society in Nineteen Eighty-Four common themes being the will to power power's corrupting influence and the obliteration of history. The Easton Press hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 2295363
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