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2001172392London: Folio Society 2001. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Folio Society hardcover
19501767<p>Very good tight binding some tanning and browning on boards. Browning on boards. Fresh inside. Has erased name on pastedown.</p> Secker & Warburg hardcover
1954000995Secker & Warburg 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Joy Batchelor & John Halas. First illustrated edition first printing thus published by Secker & Warburg in 1954. Dust jacket has several historical tape repairs and strengthening to the edges of the inside. Tape now removed though the marks remain with two pieces of archival quality repair tape added to strengthen the spine ends which are chipped. Spine also faded. Jacket now in a tidy removable protective wrapper. Original cloth covers with gilt lettering square binding pages clean and bright without inscriptions. Very good book good minus jacket. <br/> <br/> Secker & Warburg hardcover
19563116791New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Near fine in a very good or better dust jacket. Trace of light shelf-wear with a couple tiny edge chips in jacket. Trvial wear at crest of spine. Orange title hue at spine faded to pale yellow. A novel first published in England in 1936. Though not rare this imprint is quite elusive with a printing of just 3000 copies. ; 5 1/2" X 8 1/4"; 248 pages . Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
19583116382New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Top inch of spine on jacket torn and shelf-worn but present. The jacket is overwise only lightly edge-worn. Couple tiny spots of soiling at margin in text. 32pp. Photo insert. Scrap of paper with the autograph of noted political scientist Vernon Van Dyke laid-in. Uncommon title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages . Harcourt, Brace and Company. hardcover
19491102<p>Has marks on inside of last page/ where the board is and the first is. Has some foxing inside and pages that has some creasing-damage. There is also some foxing and some small stains. Some discolouration on boards and back. Has a place on back that has begun to fall off as seen. stated first american. Good condition</p> Harcourt Brace hardcover
1949ORWELL - 1984<p>Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Holland George Orwell Jacket Caricature illustrator. First Edition. Stated at copyright page: "first Canadian edition." Tan full cloth boards bold red cover and spine titles light shelf wear bump. Lightly deckled pages near fine clean; no writing Bind fine; hinges intact. Original first edition dust wrapper unclipped 3.00 protected in new clear sleeve. Wrapper flaps corners slightly clipped; appears as original from publisher. Classic mid-twentieth century wrapper in bright blue with bold black titles. Caricature of Orwell at back panel by George Holland. Rare very good first edition in good original wrapper.</p> S.J. Reginald Saunders & Co. Ltd.
19492312220003Harcourt Brace & Co 1949. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1st American edition and printing stated on copyright page. No mention of Haddon on the copyright no dot on the rear board. Includes facsimile dust jacket in mylar. Bound in publisher's tan cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Head of spine has slight fray. 314 pp. Stamp on front paste down small note on copyright page. Spine lettering slightly faded. Includes related ephemera about the previous owner Eugene Sekulow a bibliophile and student of history and politics with a focus on Germany. Refs: Fenwick A.12b. Connolly 100 <br> 1984 was Orwell's most significant novel. Phrases as 'Double Think' 'Newspeak' and 'Big Brother' were coined in the book. The first US edition was printed by Harcourt Brace and Company in 1949 only five days after the U.K. edition. The UK edition first printing ran 26575 copies the US edition was 20000. <br> <br> A wonderful contemporary review by William Soskin "The disease that has a frenzied world in its grip has been accurately diagnosed. It is the disease of Power-state power and economic power immorally exploited. We know the disease. We do not know the cure. We do not even know the prognosis -whether men will survive or be utterly quelled and defeated. Various writers have attempted to instill in us a dread of the ominous shape of things to come and they have not succeeded chiefly because their prognosis has involved time-machines flights into mechanical and biological fantasies brave new worlds such as Aldous Huxley's and erotic ballets of the future such as Robert Graves's recent "Watch the North Wind Rise." They know the symptoms of the disease of Power these writers but they somehow have not been able to construct the future in terms close enough to the reality the fear in our hearts.It is the great realists of literature rather than the satirists and fantasy-spinners who have had the gift of leading us quietly from what is to what can be. And George Orwell's novel escorts us so quietly so directly and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future that the experience is a blood-chilling one. Here is a novelist who understands the nature of the beast the quality of the future to be possessed by Power and who projects that future not in terms of gadgets or mechanical miracles not even in terms of such lurid though horribly real machines as the atomic bomb. It is because he creates the totalitarian future in terms of passion and human feeling close to our own that his book has immense stature. Orwell has created a new kind of novel. He has told the story of a comparatively normal fellow Winston Smith who is caught in the inexorable machinery of the monolithic state hounded by the forces of hatred fear and cruelty which the new civilization exalts pursued and beaten into mental and spiritual death. His privacy is dead. In his squalid apartment the telescreen tells him always what to do how to move and talk and think; what to believe. His every motion may by observed by the Thought Police through this telescreen. Smith works in the Ministry of Truth falsifying official records and news reports every time the state changes its domestic or foreign policy. Thus history is destroyed and the state controls the past as well as the present and the future. Thus ignorance an essential condition to the survival of such a state is exalted. This is an important conception in Orwell’s drama of the disease of Power run rampant but is it not close enough to our own statistical and communications systems to contain terrifying meaning for our own way of lifeIn this world which condemns personality where the dictatorship has conditioned men and women against love where food is revolting and language has been altered into something called doublethink whereby you may believe two contradictory things at once our party-faithful will understand the need for this! there is still a spark of surviving individuality in Smith. The novel depicts his heroic search for an underground movement in revolt against the nightmare that is the State. It also tells of the sad course of his attempt to escape the frustrated conception of sex and to carry on a love affair that bears some resemblance to romance some relation to physical joy.He fails this individualist and the gestapo which undoes him and the inquisitors who force his confessions and his final submission make our own police methods and our cardinals' trials seem like child's play. The chapters dealing with this final inquisition easily stand comparison with the inquisitor's scene in "The Brothers Karamazov." The story of official pursuit has all the suspense and melodrama of a super-detective novel but instead of an exercise in criminal chase we are confronted with the grim pursuit that hangs over the head of every modern man. It is a pursuit that makes us examine our own lives with a new eye. It is a novel that heightens today's problems with the light of their wrong solution. It turns a skeptic's gaze on all forms of regimentation even though momentarily they may seem to be of social benefit.You look again at your radio and television sets with all their bright possibilities for entertainment and education and you see with horror the spying eyes and ears they may become in every room of the house in the hands of people who have seized a government for the sake of power and power alone. You look again at your daily newspaper which disseminates facts or at the reports of statistical bureaus which plot and curve the rise and fall of national income population and employment and you suddenly realize that a newspaper or a statistical bureau in ruthless hands are entries to your brain - another possible instrument for the regimen of slavery.The slogans of the super-Party that governs the state in this story are: WAR IS PEACE and FREEDOM IS SLAVERY and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Other products of a public-relations technique not so different from our own are a Hate Party a Hate Week and a rigorously enforced TWO MINUTES OF HATE period. Does this seem so remote after all in a world that contains populations inculcated with the creeds of Fascism or race superiority And does it seem so strange that the world of 1984 is divided into three great warring powers - Oceania Eastasia and Eurasia- and that these wars are constantly sustained without victories or defeats as an economic policy Have we not learned in our own civilization that there are no victories or defeats and that wars are all too effective economic instruments of inflationNineteen eighty-four is after all only thirty-five years off!" WILLIAM SOSKIN What Can Be 1984 Review The Saturday Review June 11 1949 Harcourt Brace & Co hardcover
194711551<p>Collins. London. 1947. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to.8.9 x 6.6 inches. Illustrated with 8 colour plates by various artists including Ardizzone Minton and Lowry and 17 black & white illustrations. Published as part of the Britain in pictures series. There is some offsetting to the blank free endpapers but only along the area not covered by the dustwrapper otherwise a fine copy in the original green paper covered boards illustrated and lettered in white in a fine original dustwrapper which reproduces the front board on front panel. The best copy of this book that I have seen for many years.</p> Collins. London. 1947 hardcover
27769London: Secker & Warburg / Searchlight Books. 1941. First edition first printing in book form. First edition first printing in book form. Publisher's original white textured cloth with dark green titles to the spine in the Zec designed dustwrapper. A very good or better copy the binding clean and square the spine a touch rolled. The contents toned to the wartime paper stock are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper that has a couple of short closed tears with associated creasing and mild toning of the spine. Not price-clipped 2s net to the spine and front flap. The first edition was published 19 February 1941 in an edition of 5000 copies a second printing was required in March. There were no separate American or Canadian editions. Fenwick A.9a. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Secker & Warburg / Searchlight Books. 1941 hardcover
199340166BERTELSMANN CARL 1993. 1. hardcover. Sirmkovrilo! BERTELSMANN, CARL hardcover
199844006Folio Society 1998. 5 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with frontispieces plates and maps; pictorial boards backstrips lettered in black grey endpapers a near fine copy in publisher's blocked slip-case. Classic collection of Orwell's non-fiction work. The set comprises: Down and Out in Paris and London. Introduced by Michael Foot; Homage to Catalonia; My Country Right or Left and other selected Essays and Journalism; Funny but not Vulgar and other selected Essays and Journalism; The Road to Wigan Pier. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Folio Society, hardcover
193751523Gollancz 1937. 8vo. First Edition with 33 plates on 32 top lightly dust-soiled; original printed orange wrappers covers faintly age-soiled else a remarkably bright clean copy. 'Left Book Club edition. Not for Sale to the Public'. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Gollancz, unknown
2001276London: Folio Society 2001. Fine/Very Good. <p dir="ltr">5-Book Set. Cloth bindings with printed spines and patterned endpapers housed in publisher’s slipcase. Minor corner bump and light wear to slipcase; books pristine clean and tight throughout.<br /> <br /> Comprising of Burmese Days A Clergyman’s Daughter Keep the Aspidistra Flying Coming Up for Air and Nineteen Eighty-Four this set issued by the Folio Society is the definitive collected edition of Orwell’s major works of fiction. Elegant typographic design in grey and orange reflecting Orwell’s modernist austerity and the Society’s fine production standards.<br /> <br /> A desirable set especially in this condition showcasing Orwell’s enduring insight into power class and the human condition.</p> . Folio Society unknown
1952862New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1952. First American Edition First Printing. Publisher's Mustard Yellow Cloth Olive Detailing. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good or Better Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket Price-Clipped. Book is lightly shelf worn to extremities with a few more pronounced bumps to corners. Boards and edges have spots of soiling. Text block is generally toned. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Joseph Law designed dust jacket presents beautifully despite a few flaws. Moderate shelf wear has caused a few bumps chips and small closed tears. Front panel has two spots of soiling/staining/foxing origin unclear. Rear panel has a few scuffs and instances of soiling. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiv 3 4-232pp. Harcourt, Brace & Company unknown
19617197New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1961. First Edition Early Printing. First edition early printing - from 1961 with the "L.6.61" code on the copyright page. The book measures approximately 8" x 5.25" with 314 numbered pages<br /> <br /> This book is in very good plus to near fine condition. Minor wear at the board and page edges. Previous owner's name in pen on the front pastedown. The original dust jacket is in very good condition. Minor edgewear and chipping. Small tears present at the bottom of the front panel and spine. Original $4.50 price is present on the front flap. <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 # P10-24. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
19847323New 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 condition. Moderate to heavy surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Front board has a vertical crease. Moderate staining to the page edges. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Gift inscription on the front endpaper. <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 # P11-111. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
1992P1366Used; Very Good. 31-C-06 Easton Press 1992 Hardcover leatherbound. Black leather binding with gilt decor on covers . Page edges are also gilt. Moire fabric end papers. Smyth sewn. Comes with an unused bookplate and Collector's Notes. Book Condition;Very Good . 1992. HARDCOVER. hardcover
19501730<p>Very good condition. Both the loose jacket and the book. Small parts of the jacket have fallen off on the front and back but overall very good condition. The jacket is in early condition with 11sek and 14.5 sek for hardcover equivalent to around 1.2 and 1.5 dollars</p> Bonniers hardcover
1950027446USA: Harcourt and Brace 1950. First Edition 1st Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1950. First American Edition of George Orwell's Coming Up for Air. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and bright. Not price clipped. Wrapper age toned in places. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref18043 <br/> <br/> Harcourt and Brace hardcover
1948190963London: Allan Wingate 1948; 1951. First edition of this political anthology reprinting pamphlets by such figures as John Milton Gerrard Winstanley Edmund Burke and William Morris. Orwell and Taylor also provided introductions to volumes I and II where the former wrote "it is necessary that people should once again become aware of the possibilities of the pamphlet as a means of influencing opinion" p. 16. Orwell's death in January 1950 led to Taylor replacing him as joint editor of the series. 2 vols octavo. Half-tone frontispiece to both vols illustrations in the text. Original brown vol. I and red vol. II cloth spines lettered and ruled in gilt. With dust jackets. Ticket of the Kitazawa bookshop Tokyo to front pastedown of vol. I. Minor bumping light browning to endpapers; slight creasing chipping and toning to price-clipped jackets each with several tape repairs to verso: a very good set indeed. hardcover
199852012The Folio Society 1998. 1st thus. Hardback. Cloth F. 5 volumes xii275pp xxviii216pp x245pp xii318pp x211pp b/w frontis & 16pp b/w plates to each volume a fine set in the original slipcase as issued. Orwell's non fiction collected together & given the Folio treatment. The Folio Society hardcover
1937IYC132948London: Victor Gollancz 1937. 1st thus. p/b. Very good 1st edition p/b for Left Book Club original orange wraps some soiling to extremities and small tear to top of spine panel ink owner inscription to free endpaper bw plates vg . 8vo 230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"". George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice cramped slum housing dangerous mining conditions squalor hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in his later works and novels and remains a powerful portrait of poverty injustice and class divisions in Britain. incl 32 b/w photographs Victor Gollancz paperback
1968904839London: Secker & Warburg 1968 A Four Volume Set Of The Collected Works Or George Orwell In Excellent Condition. Each Volume Has The Previous Owners Details On The Half Title Page. Otherwise They Are Very Clean And Unmarked.Volume One And Two Has A Small Water Mark On The Top Block Ends However The Text Block Is Unaffected. Blue Cloth Covered Boards With Very Bright Gilt Tiles On Spines. Bright Red Paper Djs All Complete And Not Price Clipped. Very Minor Discolouration At Tails Of Volumes I And Iii. No Other Reading Or Shelving Wear. A Lovely Solid Set. International Orders Will Require Extra Shipping Costs. Secker & Warburg hardcover
19491668Hardback stated First Edition with Dust Jacket which has edge wear small missing bits small rips Harcourt hardcover
