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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
200370797Norwalk 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
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
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
51109Pariz: 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
1946W098GONew 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
51111Krakow: 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
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
19681332753New 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
194630132New York: Harcourt Brace 1946. First American edition. Black cloth fine in slightly rubbed dust jacket. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace 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
1940WRCLIT75799London: Victor Gollancz 1940. Tall octavo. Black cloth. Modest tanning 1941 pencil ownership inscription on free endsheet otherwise a very good copy. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed of which "several copies were destroyed in an air raid" - Fenwick. Uncommon. Includes Orwell's smart essays on Boys' Weeklies Henry Miller and Charles Dickens. FENWICK A.8a. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1955WRCLIT71672Berkeley: 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
20172295363The 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
1946WRCLIT71674New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. Printed wrappers. Publication information and date stamped on front wrapper. The upper wrapper has a large and disagreeable splashy coffee cup ringmark that is shadowed through the first blank and faintly on the half- title so just a fair copy in all other regards sound and very good. Advance "confidential" reading copy of the first American edition. The number of recipients who shared in the "confidentiality" of receiving copies is not readily accessible but experience suggests there were quite a significant number of them. Not in Fenwick in this format where such advance formats are not always noted. MODERN MOVEMENT 93. Harcourt, Brace and Company 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
1949WRCLIT72263London: 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
1946119076London: 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
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
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
1985WRCLIT82992New York: The Artist 1985. Original ink portrait matted to approximately 9 x 13 cm 5 x 3.5" plus margins. Executed in black India ink with accents in China white or similar. Fine. An excellent portrait of Orwell by the Swiss- born artist 1941-2007 well-known for his work for THE NEW YORKER including covers and the NYTBR. The portrait is signed in full and dated '85 in the lower left. It was published in the Feb. 8 1985 issue of the NYTBR as an accompaniment to a review of Daphne Patal's THE ORWELL MYSTIQUE by Virginia Held. Accompanied by a photocopy of the review and portrait as published. The Artist unknown books
194629758London: 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
1945107259Secker & 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
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
1935140938436London: 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
