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3758Poznan: WPROST Publishing House of the Independent Students' Association of the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University 1981. Samizdat edition. In contemporary binding. Very good condition/hardcover original edition with paperback cover sSewn into the binding paperback cover preserved bookplate on the title page traces of dirt on the paperback cover. Samizdat edition. In contemporary binding. 45 p. With illustrations. WPROST Publishing House of the Independent Students' Association of the Faculty of Law and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz Uni unknown
1995191965London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited 1995. First Steadman edition inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title "For Robert from Ralph Steadman 17 Aug. '95". This special edition was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Orwell's fable and restores Orwell's proposed preface "The Freedom of the Press" as an appendix. Small quarto. Colour illustrations throughout. Original red boards spine lettered in black illustration of mice on front cover in black newspaper-patterned endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped faint spots to top edge; jacket unclipped light creasing and nicks to edges: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover
194971604London: Secker & Warburg 1949. 16mo. First edition. 312 pp. Recently bound in a lovely full black morocco with raised bands to spine and gilt lettering; a.e.g; marbled endpapers. Light scratch at bottom edge. Spotting to the first 15 pages and fingerprints between p. 95 and p. 101. Folds at corners of a few leaves. P. 263 is missing the bottom third of the page but it is bound in between p. 280 and p. 281 - a fault in the original gathering of the sections. An attractively bound first edition. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. First Edition. 1949. Secker & Warburg 1949 unknown
1950ORWELLGE014580Secker & Warburg London. 1950. Third printing. Octavo. 312 pages.Neat contemporary 1950 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Free endpapers partially tanned. Some offsetting from the dustwrapper onto the cloth. Very good indeed in very good green dustwrapper a bit rubbed and chipped at the edges. The rear panel of the dustwrapper quotes from various tributes to Orwell after his death. A bright copy. Secker & Warburg, London. hardcover
194947632London: Secker & Warburg 1949. Very Good. London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First Edition with "First Published 1949" to copyright page. Octavo; green cloth with spine stamped in red; red topstain; 312pp. No dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure to spine ends; fading along edges and mottling to front board. Slight lean to boards and binding gives a little but overall holding. Ownership inscription of an Elizabeth Wentworth to preliminaries. According to a previous bookseller Wentworth's husband worked with Orwell's first wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy at the Ministry of Food. Overall still a Very Good first edition of Orwell's ever-relevant dystopian masterpiece. Secker & Warburg unknown
19497463London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First UK Edition First Printing. First UK edition first printing - with "First published 1949" stated on the copyright page. Measuring approximately 7.25" x 5". with 312 numbered pages. Comes with a brand new facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display.<br /> <br /> This book is in very good minus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Spine is sun faded. Crease to the lower front board which extends to the spine. Previous owner's bookplate and ownership signature on the front endsheets.<br /> <br /> "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by George Orwell. This is Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984 when much of the world is in perpetual war. More broadly the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory # Q4-15. Secker & Warburg unknown
1949422New York: Harcourt Brace 1949. First edition. Very Good. 314pp VERY GOOD condition hardcover in original dustjacket in Good condition small tear to dustjacket spine area some edge wear on dustjacket Harcourt Brace hardcover
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
1935WRCLIT75715London: Victor Gollancz 1935. Black cloth. Spine slightly cocked front free endsheet neatly excised usual modest tanning otherwise a good sound copy. First UK edition of the author's second book preceded by the 1934 US edition. This edition consisted of 2500 copies plus a second printing of 500 copies but is somewhat less common than the US edition 2000 copies. Orwell modified the text for this edition and added an Author's Note in an effort to avoid the possibilities of any libel action a fear on the part of prospective British publishers that had led to its first appearing in the US. FENWICK A2.c. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1956WRCLIT46354London: Associated British Picture Corporation Ltd. 1956. 1114 leaves foolscap. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only punched in left margin and string-tied into plain wrappers with typed label. Wrappers a bit sunned and used at overlap edges with a bit of loss at toe of spine and ragged tear at one punch-hole internally about fine. A post-production release script for the 1956 British film adaptation of Orwell's novel recording the dialogue timing and cinematic details of the final version of the film. Directed by Michael Anderson and starring Edmond O'Brien Jan Sterling Michael Redgrave Donald Pleasance et al this b&w adaptation captured the dingy bleakness of Orwell's vision of the future and served its origin well. The film is itself rather elusive these days and any scripts and publicity paper associated with it even more so. This is denoted "Copy No. 38" of the release script. Associated British Picture Corporation Ltd. unknown books
19458579London: Secker & Warburg 1945. Second Impression one of 10000 copies. Octavo 19cm; green cloth with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 911pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges light wear to extremities else a fresh very Near Fine copy entirely without foxing. In the correct dustjacket with "Second Edition" printed on front flap; unclipped priced 6s. showing modest wear and dust-soil a few tiny nicks small tears and attendant creases and a small chip at lower front flap fold; Very Good. <br /> <br /> "Classic satirical allegory mirroring the failure of the Russian Revoluion to live up to its own ideals; the animals turn out the farmer who exploits them and lay down a set of egalitarian principles to live by but the pigs once the opportunist Napoleon has disposed of the idealist Snowball prove to be the animals who are more equal than the others and in the end they have become indistinguishable from the farmers" Barron Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide 3-276. Fenwick A.10b. 8579. Secker & Warburg unknown
194628850New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. First U.S. edition. Lower corner tips bruised some light spots to the upper front cover a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild rubbing mostly to edges and lower spine wear with small chips at head of spine panel and 11 mm closed tear at upper front spine fold. 28850. Small octavo pp. 1-6 1-2 3-118 119-122: blank black cloth spine stamped in gold. "ANIMAL FARM which owes something to Swift and Defoe is his masterpiece the best fable in the language with Boxer the cart-horse the pigs and the donkey becoming household words." - Connolly The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books. 93. 4500 copies printed. Reference: Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-276. Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 156. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 228-229. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 45-7. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
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
1933140947437New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in purple and black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean to binding light fading to spine and soiling to boards. Top corner of upper board lightly bumped foxing to textblock edges with light toning to contents. Orwell's first published novel a semi-autobiographical expose intended for the middle and upper classes about destitution and poverty from a tramp's perspective. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown
19497910Seyðisfirði Iceland: Prentsmiðja Austurlands 1949. First Edition in Icelandic. Softcover. pp. 131 1. Slim 8vo. measuring 5" x 7.5" 13 x 20 cm. Textured light-blue card covers untrimmed page edges. An exceptional copy; near fine and housed in original illustrated unclipped wrappers showing a caricature of the reclined mustached dictator of the farm Napoleon. Faint rubbing to panels else without blemish; Inner flaps list additional titles on offer by the publisher; very good. References: We were unable to locate any instances on KVK. Corresponds to OCLC #4711927 indicating only but four North American and continental institutional holdings combined Fisher UCL Cornell Fiske Icelandic Collection and The University of New Mexico. Not found in Leitir The British Library BAC/LAC. See Fenwick George Orwell: A Bibliography. 1998 Citation No. A.10.T11 p.119. An essential for the Orwell completist. <br/><br/>¶ Published a mere four years following its first appearance in English Secker & Warburg 1945 our offering is the exceedingly rare first printing in the Icelandic language of this seminal work of political satire. Privately published and printed by the multi-talented and committed anti-communist Larus Johannesson printer lawyer and member of the Althing the Icelandic translation would dispense with the original title in favour of Félagi Napóelon: Ævintýri literally Comrade Napoleon: A Fairy Story. Its publication coincided with rising alarm at the burgeoning communist movement on the small island nation attracting concerted efforts by establishment forces e.g.: The Independence Party the Christian Students Association et al. to counter their seemingly rapid growth one funded and encouraged by their Soviet counterparts by shedding light on the brutality of the Stalin regime. Prentsmiðja Austurlands paperback
19491659<p>Ex-libris two patches stiched on inner-side of front-board. Missing front-free endpage and last blank page. Has some stains inside. Some stains on boards And some tanning on cover. First print 1949</p> Secker & warburg hardcover
198421621RICHARZ 1984. 1. hardcover. In Großdruck! RICHARZ hardcover
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
1946375970New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. First American edition stated. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth spine lettered in gilt; some loss of gilt to spine very lightly rubbed to top of boards. Gift inscription dated 1946 to half-title lightly toned endpapers otherwise very clean interior. Near fine in lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks and tears to edges. First American edition stated. 8vo. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
19462601040Harcourt Brace and Co 1946. first. hardcover. near fine/very good. Stated "first American edition" on copyright page. Book near fine faint white line to bottom of front cover slight rubbing to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket very good some wear tear rubbing and chipping. Harcourt, Brace and Co unknown
19497427New York: Harcourt Brace. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket has some edgewear particularly along seams corners and top and bottom of spine - see image. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. ; Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition - exception to the dustjacket noted. First American edition with price of $3.00 on front dustjacket flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages . Harcourt Brace hardcover
1949540998New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Hard-drawn owners bookplate on verso of front fly in erasable pencil but pleasing shallow loss at the crown very good in very good red dust jacket there is also a blue variant with no priority with light spine toning and several very small nicks and tears. A nice presentable copy. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
19492238<p>Has been a bit backed on spine. Name on front-free endpage. Fresh inside good.</p> Secker & Warburg hardcover
41571DEUTSCHER BÜCHERBUND. 4. hardcover. Sirmkovrilo! Nur für Mitglieder! DEUTSCHER BÜCHERBUND hardcover
194947139London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First edition. 8vo. 312 pp. Recent green full calf spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the foot marbled endpapers all edges gilt. An attractive copy. London: Secker & Warburg unknown
