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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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 140940543

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 28480

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 48629 ISBN : 0905712048 9780905712048

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 72629

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 53619

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : GO027

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1508141

‎ORWELL GEORGE‎

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 20790E

‎ORWELL George‎

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 22262

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 140941369

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9026524

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 140941370

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005564 ISBN : 0715620738 9780715620731

‎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

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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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 182521

‎Orwell George and Anna Husarska translator‎

‎Eseje: wybór Essays: selections‎

‎London: Puls Publications 1985. 12mo 14 × 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 Broński. <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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 51110

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63804

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2295363

‎Orwell George pseud of Eric Blair‎

‎DICKENS DALI & OTHERS STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE‎

‎New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1946. Cloth. First US edition 5000 copies printed. Bookplate and 1946 small ink gift inscription on free endsheet otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket with original price and a few small chips and creased tears along the top edge. FENWICK D.1b. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT75720

‎Orwell George pseud of Eric Blair‎

‎ENGLAND YOUR ENGLAND AND OTHER ESSAYS‎

‎London: Secker & Warburg 1953. Pale green cloth. First edition. Cloth slightly sunned at extremities ink name on endsheet otherwise a very good copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a bit of modest handsoiling. FENWICK D.5a. Secker & Warburg hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT71869

‎Orwell George pseud of Eric Blair‎

‎NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR‎

‎London: Secker & Warburg 1949. Pale green cloth lettered in red. Spine sunned and slightly cocked a few small spots to cloth ink ownership initials on front free endsheet but a good sound copy without dust jacket. First edition first printing one of 25575 copies thus. FENWICK A.12.a. MODERN MOVEMENT 99. Secker & Warburg hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT72263

‎Orwell George pseud of Eric Blair‎

‎THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER . WITH A FOREWORD BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ‎

‎London: Victor Gollancz 1937. Large octavo. Limp orange cloth wrappers lettered in black. March 1937 ownership date and name inside front wrapper top edge a bit dust-darkened otherwise a very good copy. First edition Left Book Club issue. This issue includes the foreword by Victor Gollancz that was omitted from the trade issue. This LBC issue consisted of 44150 copies; the trade issue consisted of only 2150 copies. FENWICK A.5.a. Victor Gollancz hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT75714

‎Orwell George pseud. of Eric Blair‎

‎JAMES BURNHAM AND THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION wrapper title‎

‎Berkeley: Berkeley Young Socialist League 1955. 215 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Stapled at left with mimeographed upper wrapper. Old folds from mailing lacks lower wrapper which included YSL info and adverts a bit of sunning else very good. A possible candidate for being the first separate US printing of Orwell's essay first published in POLEMIC May 1946 then published separately in the UK the same year by the Socialist Book Centre and eventually collected in SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT both UK and US 1950. The 1 1/3 page "Publisher's Remarks" by James Robertson is dated 29 January 1955 and curiously remarks about the lack of availability of the essay in the US. The YSL was one of the most visible and influential of the leftist campus groups of the 1950s and evolved as an offshoot of Max Shachtman's Workers Party. Robertson's "Prefatory remarks" reflect the YSL's Trotskyite affiliation by taking issue with Orwell's "slight acquaintance" with Trotsky's writings. OCLC/Worldcat locates a single copy at Brown. Not In Fenwick and even if wanting in chronological priority and perhaps even wanting in authorization by Orwell's estate of significant bibliographic and contextual interest. OCLC: 54827397. Berkeley Young Socialist League unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT71672

‎Orwell George pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair‎

‎ORWELL: THE LOST WRITINGS . Edited with an introduction by W. J. West‎

‎New York: Arbor House 1985. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-304 illustrations cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as ORWELL: THE WAR BROADCASTS 1985. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #161650 Arbor House unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 161650 ISBN : 0877957452 9780877957454

‎Orwell George pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair Coppard Audrey and Bernard Crick‎

‎ORWELL REMEMBERED‎

‎New York New York Bicester England: Facts On File Publications 1984. Octavo pp. 1-4 5-287 288 cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. A collection of personal reminiscences and memoirs compiled and introduced by Coppard and Crick. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some scuffing to black ink background mainly rear panel. #42558 Facts On File Publications unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42558