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‎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

Bookseller reference : 00011404805 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992

‎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

Bookseller reference : 103159

‎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

Bookseller reference : 062923 ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992

‎Orwell George Author‎

‎Keep the Aspidistra Flying‎

‎Penguin Classics 2014. Paperback. New. 288 pages. Penguin Classics paperback‎

Bookseller reference : __0141395478 ISBN : 0141395478 9780141395470

‎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

Bookseller reference : G0141194731I3N00 ISBN : 0141194731 9780141194738

‎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

Bookseller reference : 23201

‎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

Bookseller reference : 135765

‎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

Bookseller reference : 082435

‎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

Bookseller reference : G150289159XI4N00 ISBN : 150289159X 9781502891594

‎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

Bookseller reference : GRP112173342 ISBN : 0436350068 9780436350061

‎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

Bookseller reference : 44604

‎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

Bookseller reference : 2764

‎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

Bookseller reference : 49653

‎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

Bookseller reference : ZB1115696

‎Orwell George‎

‎Keep The Aspidistra Flying‎

‎Penguin. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Spine is cracked. Slightly dampstained. Penguin unknown‎

Bookseller reference : SB05OS-00184

‎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

Bookseller reference : 121391

‎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

Bookseller reference : 234478

‎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

Bookseller reference : PA0239 ISBN : 0140182330 9780140182330

‎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

Bookseller reference : 908329

‎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

Bookseller reference : 395

‎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

Bookseller reference : 016595

‎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

Bookseller reference : 53619

‎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

Bookseller reference : CONROY159456I ISBN : 0156468999 9780156468992

‎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

Bookseller reference : 119145A

‎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

Bookseller reference : 10330