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dola3051Toronto: S. J. Reginald Saunders & Co. Ltd. 1949. First Canadian Edition so-stated which is a book club edition. Back cover with small dot & verso of title with ‘Printed in the United States of America by Haddon Craftsmen Scranton PA’ below first Canadian edition statement on verso of title but jacket with unclipped price of $3 and no mention of book club. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 314. cloth. dw. slight wear to dw. edges & inner extremities clipped. dola3051 Toronto: S. J. Reginald Saunders & Co., Ltd., [1949] hardcover
1958005737Harcourt Brace and Company. Stated First American Edition. DJ in archival cover small closed tear. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1958. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
194931196<p>George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is among the most influential novels of the 20th century recognized globally for its chilling vision of totalitarian control political repression and surveillance. This stated first American edition published in 1949 by Harcourt Brace and Company in New York captures the Cold War anxieties about authoritarianism though its themes continue to impact contemporary political debate. Orwell's dystopia introduced terms now deeply embedded in political vocabulary and public discourse including "Big Brother" "Newspeak" and "thoughtcrime." Provenance: Bookplate "From the Library of Boyd Morrison Guttery" a US Army colonel who served in Japan during WWII and Korea. Octavo 8vo single volume. Good condition; tan cloth binding is secure with moderate wear to edges corners and spine which is faded but with intact hinges and tight text block and only slight browning to page edges and endpapers. Professional Facsimile red dust jacket is in Excellent condition. Collation: 4 314. Edition: First American Book Club edition 1949. #31196. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
20218503Etats-Unis, Suntup Editions / Limited Artist Edition, 2021. Fort in-8 cartonnage éditeur pleine toile noire de 328 pages au format 23,5 x 3,5 x 16 cm. Couverture avec titre. Dos rond avec titre. Complet de la jaquette avec titre et nom de l'auteur en relief ainsi que du marque-pages illustré. Plats et intérieur frais. Livre glissé sous beau carton de protection de couleur argenté avec titre en découpe au 1er plat et titre au dos. Photo et courte biographie de Georges Orwell au second rabat de la jaquette. Préface de Joe Hill. Magnifique frontispice et illustrations couleurs en hors texte par Jim Burns. Tirage unique à 1000 exemplaires signés par l'illustrateur, Jim Burns. Edition originale Superbe état général pour cette rare édition et sans doute la plus belle à ce jour du chef-d'oeuvre de l'auteur.Le roman adapté et réalisé par Michael Radford en 1984, fut diffusé en salles la même année. On trouvait dans les rôles principaux, entre autres : John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack et Bob Flag ( Big Brother ). La musique fut comosé en partie par le groupe Eurythmics, dont la chanson " Sexcrime " ( Nineteen Eighty-Four ), qui ne figurait que sur l'album et non dans le film, mais qui servait de musique de fond aux bandes-annonces de l'époque.
195080926London: Secker & Warburg 1950. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. green cloth 312 pp spine faded slightly cocked note in ink to front end paper second printing<br /> <br /> Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Secker & Warburg hardcover
196882156London: Secker & Warburg 1968. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/good. blue cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 574 477 435 555 pp dj's are sunned on the spine and worn and chipped on the edges owner's name written on the front endpaper and front pastedown light foxing on the edges <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Secker & Warburg hardcover
1950032166London: Secker & Warburg 1950 12mo. original pale green cloth a little rubbed & sunned fraying at tail cap toning to spine some spotting and offsetting previous owner's name to FFE else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper; pp. 312. A very good copy of the second printing of this influential novel. Second Printing. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. Secker & Warburg hardcover
1946112742Harcourt Brace and Co 1946. First American Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 7x5x0. 1946 Harcourt First American Edition first printing with $1.75 price intact jacket and no statement of where it was printed to the rear jacket flap. Tight binding no marks. Jacket foxed on the verso and shows light rub. Top edge of text block is dust dulled. 1" of tiny abrasion to top edge of rear board. Please email for photos. Harcourt, Brace and Co hardcover
194944747NY: Harcourt Brace. Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Beige cloth titled in black and maroon. Stated first American edition. Substantial Insecting to cloth and edges; ffep has insecting enough to nearly detach the page; next few pages have less insecting. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is chipped/worn/with interior tape to edges toned spine few short tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Harcourt Brace hardcover
19501696<p>The book has had its spine reglued and has some wear in corners. Can be seen on side. No writing inside. Binding is now tight. Otherwise the condition is good.</p> Secker & warburg hardcover
201760440Norwalk CT: Easton Press. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2017. Hardcover. In VG gilt-decorated graycloth slipcase with tipped-in color illustration ; Signed by illustrator on limitation page and on laid in publisher's certificate of authenticity. Full gilt-decorated brown leather binding AEG ribbon marker 3 raised bands marbled endpapers tipped-in color illustrations with tissue guards. Limited edition no. 467 of 1200 copies; 4to; 218 pages . Easton Press hardcover
73245London: Secker and Warburg 1954. Modern Literature FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.109 1. With a colour frontispiece over two pages and 31 in-text line drawings. Elegantly bound in dark red half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin green labels further gilt decoration to spine and the original publisher's cloth over boards titled in silver to upper. A crisp clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Produced alongside the full-length cartoon film produced by Batchelor and Halas. London: Secker and Warburg, 1954 unknown
19491638<p>The jacket is first state and the book second state. Jacket is very worn and has much tape restoration inside and on front. The front-flap is loose by 1/2 to 2/3rds.<br />Book is in very good condition. No black dot but also not stated first inside.</p> Harcourt hardcover
19882281180731009Monarch Notes 1988-09-01. Paperback. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear. Pages are not crisp white. Monarch Notes paperback
78152aafNew York, Harcourt, Brace and Compagny, 1949, in-8vo, 314 p., + 2 leave prospect of the Book-Of-The-Month Club, with portrait of Orwell and text by Henry Seidel Canby ‘is this what our world is coming to?, orig. cloth with blue dustjacket with inside mention ‘Book-of-the-month club selection $3.00, with a printed caricature of Orwell by George Holland on back panel.
19491022<p>Has some wear on spine some small stains on boards. Name and date in er-side of front-board. Binding is mostly good but if you look from one of the first pages you can see a slight opening. Has a few pages with not foxing on whome but a quite big foxing mark. I believe this is foxing but could be a stain. There is also some stains. Very sought after first print of american edition. No dot and first american stated</p> Harcourt Brace hardcover
1954030236UK: Secker 1954. First Edition Thus . Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Joy Batchelor John Halas. 1st Edition 1954. The 1st illustrated edition. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Quite a nice example. More images can be taken upon request. RefA1234 <br/> <br/> Secker hardcover
1947192143London: Collins 1947. First edition of this celebrated study of the English character commissioned to promote Britain as a free society during the Second World War. Orwell's essay ranges from English faults - snobbishness insularity class obsessions - to English achievements and their essentially humane political culture: an important model for war-torn Europe. It is only with the empowerment of the common people he argues that England can remain a great nation in the post-war world. Octavo. With 8 colour plates many illustrations in the text. Original green boards spine and front cover lettered in white covers panelled and vignette to front in white. With dust jacket. Boards bowed board edges a little rubbed; jacket unclipped spine lightly toned a few splash marks to rear panel nick to foot of rear fold: a very good copy in like jacket. Fenwick A11a. hardcover
1947192445London: Collins 1947. First edition of Orwell's essay commissioned by Collins in 1943 to promote British values and describe British life during the Second World War although not published until after its conclusion. Though Orwell criticizes much about the English he presents them as a model for war-torn Europe defined by a humane political culture and peaceful outlook. Octavo. With 8 colour plates many illustrations in the text. Original green boards spine and front cover lettered in white covers panelled and vignette to front in white. With dust jacket. Endpapers a little toned as usual; unclipped bright jacket with slight rubbing at extremities: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket. Fenwick A11a. hardcover
196813472THE COLLECTED ESSAYS JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL being Volume 1 An Age Like This 1920-1940; Volume 2 My Country Right or Left 1940-1943; Volume 3 As I Please 1943-1945 & Volume 4 In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950 Harcourt Brace & World1968 first editions all fine in like dust-wrappers. Harcourt, Brace & World unknown
19497177London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First UK Edition Second Printing. First UK edition second printing - with "Reprinted 1950" 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 good condition. Heavy wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Boards are sun faded. Minor foxing to the edges and to the interior of the textblock. Rear hinge is cracked.<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 # P3-11. Secker & Warburg unknown
19847422New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1984. First American Edition First Printing. First American edition first printing - with "first American edition" stated on the copyright page. No book club dot present on the rear board. Comes with a brand new facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display. The book measures approximately 8" x 5.25" with 314 numbered pages<br /> <br /> This book is in good plus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. No previous ownership names or bookplates. Original dust jacket flaps affixed to the rear pastedown.<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 # Q1-16. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
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
19461392546New York NY: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 118 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and age toned white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price uncut "$1.75" has open tears along the corners creasing and mild chipping along most extremities and mild shelving wear and age toning. Boards have mild fraying and bending along the spine head and tail edges and fore corners and white scuff marks. Textblock has a small stains on page 24 and 61 pencil inscriptions on pages 15-16 29 40 49-50 and mild age toning on the pastedown pages end-pages and edges. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 2. 1392546. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover