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Orwell George
Keep the aspidistra flying
Penguin books/Secker & Warburg. 1972. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 263 pages. Texte en anglais. Nombreuses rousseurs. Dos fané.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Bookseller reference : RO60149361 ISBN : 140016988
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Orwell George
"Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collection ""Penguin Modern Classics"")"
Penguin Books. 1970. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 250 pages. Texte en anglais. Quelques pliures sur les plats.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Bookseller reference : RO60148137
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Orwell George
Inside the whale and other essays
Penguin books/Secker & Warburg. 1968. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 202 pages. Texte en anglais. Quelques rousseurs. Ex-libris à l'encre en page de faux titre. Quelques accrocs au dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Bookseller reference : RO60147860
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Orwell George
Down and out in Paris and London
Penguin books/Secker & Warburg. 1969. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos fané, Papier jauni. 188 pages. Texte en anglais. Quelques rousseurs. Quelques accrocs au dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Bookseller reference : RO60147865
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Orwell George
Nineteen eighty-four
Penguin books/Secker & Warburg. 1954. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 250 pages. Texte en anglais. Quelques rousseurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Bookseller reference : RO60145440 ISBN : 140009728
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Orwell George
Animal farm- a fairy story by George Orwell
A signet classi/NAL. 1959. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos fané, Papier jauni. 128 pages. Texte en anglais. Quelques rousseurs. Légèrement désolidarisé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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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
Bookseller reference : 119076
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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
Bookseller reference : 117730
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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
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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
Bookseller reference : 67096
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Orwell George
Animal Farm
Penguin Books 2003. New. New book. Penguin Books unknown books
Bookseller reference : WELLER9780452284241 ISBN : 0452284244 9780452284241
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RAJAN B. and Andrew Pearse editors George Orwell Julian Symans Kathleen Raine Kenneth Patchen Thomas Merton et al.
Focus Two
London: Dennis Dobson Limited 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 138 pages. Anthology with contributions by George Orwell Julian Symans Kathleen Raine Kenneth Patchen Thomas Merton and numerous others. A very good copy in cloth boards with the stamp of a New York magazine to the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Dennis Dobson Limited unknown books
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Orwell George
1984
Signet 1977. New. New book. Signet unknown books
Bookseller reference : WELLER9780451524935 ISBN : 0451524934 9780451524935
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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
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RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE ORWELL George novel; DAVISON Peter editor
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript
London: Secker and Warburg 1984. First Trade Edition. Small folio 35cm; full maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's plain card slipcase; xx3813pp. Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket and slipcase. Handsome edition of Orwell's towering dystopian novel reproducing to scale the only extant manuscript for any of Orwell's works. The manuscript originated with Orwell's widow who offered it to a charity auction and ultimately ended up in the vault in the rare book room of Scribner's Bookstore in New York where it was acquired by bookseller and publisher Dan Siegal who offers a lengthy preface to this edition. With an introduction and notes by professor and Orwell scholar Peter Davison who transcribed the manuscript. FENWICK A.12.M8; LEWIS p.139; BOOKER pp.208-213. Secker and Warburg unknown books
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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
Bookseller reference : 161650 ISBN : 0877957452 9780877957454
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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
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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. Lower corners bruised else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #42588 Arbor House unknown books
Bookseller reference : 42588 ISBN : 0877957452 9780877957454
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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
Bookseller reference : 48629 ISBN : 0905712048 9780905712048
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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
Bookseller reference : 9026524
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Orwell George
A collection of Essays
A Harvest book/Harcourt, Brace & World. Non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 316 pages. Texte en anglais. Ex-libris à l'encre en page de titre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Bookseller reference : RO60143758 ISBN : 156186004
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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
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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
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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
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George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays
London: Secker and Warburg 1950. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A solid presentable copy of the 1950 true 1st edition. Tight and VG very light offsetting along the edges and the spine in a crisp price-intact VG dustjacket with light chipping and several very small closed tears to the panel edges and the spine ends. An important early collection of Orwell essays including "Reflections on Gandhi" and "How the Poor Die" <br/><br/> Secker and Warburg hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 18496
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ORWELL George.
The English People.
London:: Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. B0007B29MY . Part of the Britain in Pictures series. 8 color plates and 17 black and white illustrations. First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down offsetting to endpapers else very good in a very good trace edge wear and age toning dust jacket. ; 48 pages . Collins, hardcover books
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George Orwell
Inside the Whale and Other Essays
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1940. Cloth. Very Good. SIGNED BY GEORGE ORWELL on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1940 true 1st edition of this uncommon collection of Orwell essays consisting of 3 lengthy pieces --"Charles Dickens" "Boys' Weeklies" and "Inside the Whale". Tight and VG in its dark cloth with rubbing to the spine lettering light spotting --and a bit of minor staining-- at the panels and just a touch of foxing to the endsheets. Orwell's signature of course is legendarily elusive and given his relatively short life 1903-1950 and the major impact his career had in the world of 20th century literature is extremely sought-after. Only a very small handful of 20th century authors command comparable respect in the rare book world. <br/><br/> Victor Gollancz Ltd hardcover books
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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
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ORWELL George. Hollis Christopher.
A Study of George Orwell: The Man and His Works.
Chicago: Henry Regnery 1956. First US edition. viii 212 pp w/index. Faint offsetting to endpapers else very near fine in like dust jacket. Chicago: Henry Regnery, unknown books
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ORWELL George
Animal Farm Kolgosp Tvarin
<p><b>ORWELL</b> George:<br /></p><p><b><i>Kolgosp Tvarin</i></b> <i>Animal Farm</i>.</p><p>Translated into Ukranian by Ivan Chernyatinskii Ihor Shevchenko.</p><p>Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei 1947.</p><p>8vo. i901 pp.; printed pictorial wrappers.</p><p>Limited to 2000 copies for distribution to Ukranian refugees. With a newly contributed preface by Orwell addressing the audience of this publication and emphasizing his complicated feelings toward the Soviet regime. QUITE RARE.</p><p><br /></p> Vidavnitstvi Prometei paperback books
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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
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Orwell George.
As I Please 1943-1945.
New York.: Harcourt Brace and World. 1968. 1st Edition. Blue cloth gilt spine title gilt signature on cover. Very good n a very good dust jacket with some edgewear. 22x14 cm. weight: 1.6 lb. Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. Harcourt, Brace and World. hardcover books
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Orwell George
Animal Farm
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. First American edition. 118 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Full black gilt morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey a.e.g. Fine. First American edition. 118 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
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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
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ORWELL GEORGE.
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution.
London: Socialist Book Centre 1946. FIRST EDITION. Crisp near fine copy in wrappers with a faint crease to covers and internal leaves. <br/><br/> Socialist Book Centre unknown books
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ORWELL George
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
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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
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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
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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
Bookseller reference : 140941369
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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
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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
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Orwell George
Animal Farm
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Review copy with letter from the publisher folded in half and tipped in at front free endpaper protruding slightly over the textblock. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear to cloth. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket correctly lacking "Printed in the USA" on the rear flap; with light rubbing and edge wear light crease to front panel and front flap. Uncommon with publisher's letter tipped in. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
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Orwell Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First British edition first printing. Very Good with foxing to cloth and lean to spine; bookseller ticket to front pastedown. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact faded at the spine edge worn lightly creased at front panel lightly soiled and tape repairs made to the verso at the spine ends causing a small bit of bleeding to the red ink at the spine joint ends. A lovely copy of Orwell's dystopian classic. Secker & Warburg unknown books
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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
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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
Bookseller reference : 10791
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Orwell pseudonym of Smith Walter Chalmers. 1824 1908
The BISHOP'S WALK And The BISHOP'S TIMES
Cambridge / London: MacMillan and Co 1861. 1st printing presumed. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. General wear bit of faint spotting to right edge of front board. 19th C. poi to half-title upper margin. Very Good. xxviii 2 145 1 blank 24 pp. 24 page publisher catalogue at rear. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/> MacMillan and Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 48182
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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
Bookseller reference : 282471
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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
Bookseller reference : 140941370
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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
Bookseller reference : 140939547
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Orwell George
Animal Farm
Secker & Warburg 1945. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A fine second edition published in the same month August 1945 as the first printing in a very good dust jacket with the original price of 6s still visible on the front flap of the jacket small triangular piece is loose at left top of front dj. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Jacket states second edition. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 107259
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