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1933140941404New 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
1933140940543New 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
1933140939547New 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
193328480New 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
196752880NY:: 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
198048629New 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
1938282471London: 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
195572629Berkeley 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
194644353London: 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
195653619NY:: 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
19921336688Norwalk 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
1949GO027London: 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
1949140940172New 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
19491508141Secker & 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
1984117730Weston 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
198420790EWeston 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
195665928NY:: 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
194722262Evansville 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
140940731First 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
1950140941369London: 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
1950WRCLIT75718New 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
19479026524London: 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
1941140938363London: 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
1937140941370New 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
19371906003Gollancz 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
