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1949140944245London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First British edition first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with red lettering to spine. Very Good with light lean to binding cloth sunned through dust jacket former owner name and bookseller ticket to front paste down pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and edge wear with chipping at the corners and loss to the spine ends. An increasingly difficult first edition to track down in the original dust jacket. Secker & Warburg unknown
19603513DIANA 1960. 10. softcover. DIANA paperback
1945355490723490London: Secker and Warburg 1945. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Secker & Warburg May 1945. First UK Edition in first issue dustwrapper priced 6s. to the front flap. Publisher's original green cloth with spine lettered in white. Boards exceptionally bright clean and un-faded apart from a slither of fading to the tip and tail of the spine matching light chipping to the dustwrapper. Overall a lovely near fine copy with no former owner's inscriptions. The dustwrapper is a VG example with a 3 cm tear to the top of the front panel which has been neatly stabilised to the verso by a skilled paper conservationist and a couple of other short closed tears to the top edge. There is minor shallow chipping to the tip and tail of the spine not affecting the lettering and the usual rubbing to the edges of the spine often seen with this title. Unusually the dustwrapper is not printed on the customary Search Searchlight books paper to the verso. However for the avoidance of doubt we can confirm that this dustwrapper and book have clearly been together since the book was published as the miniscule fading to the spine tips matches perfectly the light chipping to the dustwrapper. Secondly the dustwrapper is definitely NOT from a Second Edition as there is no mention of Second Edition to the front flap and there is no tell-tale erasure had it been there in the first place. What differentiates this copy is how clean the back cover is. Rest assured there has been no restoration to the miniscule chips to the dustwrapper which is as natural as you would hope to find. The first edition of Animal Farm 4500 copies was delayed from May to August 1945 and was an immediate success. One of the most important books of the last century and widely perceived as George Orwells masterpiece allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Photographs/scans available upon request. Secker and Warburg hardcover
1949170737London: Secker & Warburg 1949. It's a beautiful thing the destruction of words First edition in the scarcer red dust jacket. The first impression was issued in green and red dust jackets simultaneously; judging from surviving examples this was done in proportions of about two green to one red. Warning against totalitarianism in any guise Orwell's last book has exerted a monumental impact on the English language coining terms such as "doublethink" and "Big Brother". "No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell's 1984. The title the adjectival form of the author's last name the vocabulary of the all-powerful party. It's almost impossible to talk about propaganda surveillance authoritarian politics or pervasions of truth without dropping a reference to 1984" Packer. Octavo. Original light green cloth spine lettered in red top edge red. With red dust jacket. Spine and edges sunned extremities slightly bumped trace of label removal to front pastedown contents clean; jacket a little rubbed and price-clipped spine sunned extremities lightly chipped and worn with minor loss to foot of spine a couple of short splits to flap folds: a very good copy in very good jacket. Fenwick A12a. George Packer "Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined" The Atlantic July 2019. hardcover
19491733<p>Book fresh with only a little bit of tanning but a spine is slightly tanned all around. Dust-jacket completely unrestored with no tape or any restauration. Its red color nicely. The dust-jacket is in beautiful condition and has kept its red rich color well on back and front. Has a small crease on front of jacket and slightly tanned over the G on front. The jacket has slightl loss on spine in places but only a little. The spine of jacket is tanned aswell. The book is fresh inside and has no writing or stains. The jacket has tanned or turned more gray on spine.</p> Secker & warburg hardcover
19491436<p>1984 a not price-clipped or restored in red jacket.<br />It has some tanning on spine and some loss on back aswell as some tears for the most part closed. Loss on upper part of spine on jacket. Darkening to back of jacket upper-part. Very minor tanning on hardcover book and very minor crease on spine on book.<br />A few pages in book are slightly shorter than other ones from production this makes no difference to the value but thought i might add it. It might make it higher though since its possibly early production error. Have seen this in other copies.<br />Erased now invisible Inscription with pen on front-free endpage has been erased with a eraser. almost impossible to see now.<br />Minor foxing on front-free endpage.<br />The book has green vibrant colors on the cover.</p> Secker & Warburg hardcover
1949146200London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First edition of Orwell's classic dystopian novel. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and closed tears. Jacket design by Michael Kennard. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. A nice example. 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. Fenwick A12a. Connolly 99. Anatomy of Wonder II:838. 100 Most Influential Books 93. Secker & Warburg hardcover
19409108Gollancz 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. A first edition first printing published by Gollancz in 1940. Some light spotting to end papers. Some foxing to edges which are a little dusty. Very slight wear to head and tail of spine. Cloth dull with a few blemishes. The unclipped dust wrapper priced 7/6 net on the spine dust marked with some creasing and rubbing. Spine of dust wrapper tanned. Some ink marks to rear. One crease to the spine and to the top of the front panel. Initially a review of 'Tropic of Cancer' by Henry Miller Orwell moves on to discuss Charles Dickens and 1920s to 1930s literature. The biblical story of Jonah and the whale is used as a metaphor for accepting experience without seeking to change it Jonah inside the whale being comfortably protected from the problems of the outside world. A very rare Orwell title with no US equivalent edition. Gollancz published 1000 copies were published of which 'several copies were destroyed in an air raid.' cf. Fenwick G. 1998. Copies in dust wrappers are exceptionally scarce. Gollancz hardcover
1933002575New York: Harper & Brothers 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo here is an extremely Rare 1st edition copy of Orwell's first book with original dust jacket. Not price clipped price of $2.50 on inside front flap. Extremely rare to find it in this shape and not a remainder copy.Bound in purple cloth with black lettering on spine clean and tight. Slight edge wear at top and bottom of spine jacket some wear at board tips and a small chip at bottom right edge of jacket. No tears in jacket. In protective mylar. So few of these exist in this condition with jacket. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
194030228London: Victor Gollancz 1940. Book. VG. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo. Gilt lettered black cloth in Yellow white Gollancz dust jacket which has small chips at the head and heel of the spine which has darkened. No title text missing. Ink name to endpaper and text block slightly browning. This book collects three essays-Charles Dickens Boys Weeklies and title essay Inside the Whale. Uncommon in dust jacket. Victor Gollancz Hardcover
1933140949320London: Victor Gollancz 1933. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in chartreuse on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with lean and sunning to spine light wear and mottling to cloth and corners. Binding slightly exposed at p. 113 bookplate to front pastedown bookseller ticket to back pastedown and light toning and sporadic foxing to contents. Fenwick A.1a.<br /> <br /> <p>George Orwell's first published book from the library of the American naval officer and book collector Charles John Muto. Orwell's account of hard times in two cities was well reviewed but the small print run of 1500 copies sold modestly. First editions are consequently scarce. Victor Gollancz unknown
19491773<p>The dust-jacket is well-preserved and has two small bits of tape on the reverse side of jacket. The jacket is also grayed on the spine and has some small loss but holds together very well and is vibrant red. The book is very good and doesn't have foxing or writing inside. Some foxing seen only on outside as expected. Has some browning low down on spine and tanning on spine a bit but binding is tight.</p> Secker & Warburg hardcover
1916140942665Eastbourne Sussex: St. Cyprian's School 1916. Original program for a wartime musical theater performance by the boys of St. Cyprian's School featuring three major British authors-to-be: George Orwell Cecil Beaton and Cyril Connolly. Orwell then known as Eric Blair and Connolly played characters in "Mr. Jingle's Wooing" an adaptation of Dickens's The Pickwick Papers. A young Cecil Beaton played Little Buttercup in "Pinafore Potted" based on Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore. Perhaps Orwell's performance colored his perception of the school as it would be immortalized uncharacteristically with Dickensian gloominess as "Crossgates" in his essay "Such Such Were the Joys." The essay was unprintable in the UK due to their slander laws so it was first published in the US instead in 1952.<br /> <br /> <p>Orwell's biographer Jeffrey Meyers notes that once WWI began the boys of St. Cyprian's prep school "practiced drill on the playing field followed the latest battles on maps in the classrooms and visited the wounded Tommies in army hospitals where they handed out peppermint creams and Woodbine cigarettes." This particular dramatic performance was staged not only for family and friends of the school but also for almost a hundred wounded soldiers back from the front. The decorated wrappers featuring a jaunty young man wrapped in bandages smoking a cigarette pay tribute to the boys' special guests. <br /> <br /> <p>Orwell's classmate Walter John Christie whose hand-painted illustration graces the front wrap would recall St. Cyprian's much more rosily in a 1970 piece for Blackwood's Magazine "St. Cyprian's Days." He and Orwell came from similar lower-middle class families with civil-servant fathers in India but he wrote that he felt Orwell "had a chip on his shoulder through out most of his life." Helpfully he also cited the contemporary school paper's review of the night's performance: "Eric Blair in the person of Mr Wardle was exceedingly good in a somewhat difficult part." Connolly and Beaton also received positive write-ups. <br /> <br /> <p>Printed bifolium measuring 7" x 4.5" folded double-punched at folded edge and tied with ribbon into grey wrappers measuring 9.25" x 6". Front wrapper illustrated with an original hand-colored drawing by W.J. Christie of a bandaged soldier smiling and smoking a cigarette. Light wear and soiling to outer wrappers with small chip to upper right corner ribbon ties threadbare. <br /> <br /> <p>A remarkable survival of a serendipitous night of children's theater skillfully decorated by a St. Cyprian's alumnus. Scarce. St. Cyprian's School unknown
1940032335London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1940. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with gilt to spine. Original dust jacket unclipped mylar protected. First edition. Previous owner's inscription to endpaper. Dust jacket chipped at edges and torn at head and heel of spine; sunned with some soiling. Inside clean lightly toned throughout with partial toned offset on pages 128/129. Rare with dust jacket. A very good copy. Victor Gollancz Ltd Hardcover
1998031542London: Secker& Warburg 1998. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 20 volume set. All in blue cloth with silver spine lettering in jackets. Includes Animal Farm 1984 Down and Out in Paris and London and all his writings and essays. Volumes 1-9 were previously published in England in 1986-87 and reprinted in 1997 then in 1998 to include volumes 10-20. Edited by Peter Davison. Volume 16 near fine except wear to the extremities. A near fine and attractive set. Secker& Warburg Hardcover
1936148358London: Victor Gollancz 1936. Frist edition of Orwell's classic social criticism of money-worship and status. Octavo original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket with some restoration and flaps restored. First editions in the original jacket are rare. Owell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying centers on the story of Gordon Comstock and his romantic ambition to defy the worship of the money and status and the dismal life that results. Orwell wrote the book in 1934 and 1935 when he was living at various locations near Hampstead in London and drew on his experiences in these and the preceding few years. At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions sleeping rough and roaming in the poorer parts of London. The novel was adapted into a 1997 film of the same name directed by Robert Bierman and stars Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter. Victor Gollancz hardcover
19492307120Secker & Warburg 1949. first. hardcover. near fine/good. First edition with "First published 1949" stated on copyright page. Book near fine some tanning to spine and covers. Dust jacket good some pieces missing some wear tear along front hinge to spine. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Secker & Warburg unknown
1949205126London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First edition first printing. Publisher's pale green cloth spine titled in red top edge stained red in Michael Kennard green variant dust jacket 10s. Slight lean top edge and spine sunned offsetting front and rear board edges overall near fine in original now near fine expertly repaired dust jacket with near imperceptible color retouching to extremities/seams and tear/tape repair lower rear panel in mylar cover. 312pp. 7.5" x 5.25" TUBERCULOSIS AND HISTORY'S ORWELLIAN CYCLICALITY <br /> <br /> In 1949 Eric Arthur Blair--better known to the world as George Orwell--was sick. His tuberculosis had once again taken hold and he had just completed what would be unbeknownst to him his final literary and political statement to the world. The prophetic and cultural influence that word would exert can hardly be overstated. Nineteen Eighty-Four is cemented among the great political novels of the twentieth century alongside the likes of Huxley's Brave New World and his own previously published Animal Farm. Had he lived to his eightieth birthday in 1984 how many Orwellian cycles might he have witnessed--where history is rewritten language is weaponized and surveillance hangs over every word<br /> <br /> Presented here is a handsome true first edition in original publisher's green variant dust jacket no priority<br /> <br /> Fenwick A.12a. Secker & Warburg unknown
1945097962Secker and Warburg 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Good Condition/Fair. VG-/Fair 1st printing 1st ed 1945 Secker hardback with the original quite fragile corner-clipped dust-jacket. Some chips creasing and tears along the jacket edges as shown longer tear to upper front edge of DJ some loss to DJ spine ends and area of loss to the centre of the DJ spine. Previous name and date written to fly-leaf thin wartime paper and fading to spine and edge of book a little spotting to inside rear cover binding tight and secure pages tanned but unmarked. Rare. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2kg. Category: Family & Relationships; ISBN: B001UHET04. ISBN/EAN: B001UHET04. 84cxrarebooks is the trading name of Cambridge-based bookseller Marino Guida with 25 years experience in the trade. We guarantee the condition of all our books. Further images or a short video presentation of any book can be arranged on request. We send tax-free and tariff-free to EU US/Canada and Australia/NZ with insurance included for peace of mind. Inventory No: 097962. B001UHET04 Secker and Warburg hardcover
194988110London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Kennard. 1949 First edition first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Green dust-jacket priced 10s. A wonderful example of the first edition of Orwell's dystopian classic benefiting from some skilful minor restoration to remove a sticker mark from the jacket spine and improving the corners. Although many worthy experts suggest that the red jacket has historically proved to be the scarcer it is our experience that the green one has proved equally difficult to acquire in recent years - worth noting that of ten jacketed first editions that appeared at auction in 2025 eight were in the red jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown and ink name to front free endpaper; jacket with expert restoration to corners and central section of spine resulting in an excellent example. Very good Secker & Warburg hardcover
CNAP099bSan Francisco: The Arion Press 2013. Hardcover. New. Hammer Jonathan. Octavo 10 1/4" by 7 3/8" 154 numbered pages plus 48 unnumbered pages for the illustrations 202 pages total. The type is Times New Roman in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris with display sizes set by hand. The relief prints are printed from polymer plates made from negatives scratched by the artist with an etching needle for the black images with photopolymer plates made from overlay drawings in pencil for the red tints. The paper is Zerkall Ivory Book a German mould-made sheet. The binding done in-house is machine-sewn with a maroon buckram spine titled in gold and ochre buckram sides printed in maroon with images of the gate of Manor Farm on the back and the gate of Animal Farm on the front. The slipcase has ochre buckram edges title in maroon on the spine and maroon buckram sides. Edition of 300 numbered copies plus 26 lettere copies hors de commerce signed by the artist. There is an extra suite of twenty-four relief prints the same images as appear in the book. The images were printed in black and hand-colored in red and one of four colors. The paper is Zerkall Natural white 15 " by 12 1/2" encased is a portfolio covered in maroon buckram with an ochre titling label on the front. The suite is in an edition of 30 numbered sets plus 5 artist's proofs and 5 publisher's proofs with each print numbered and signed by the artist. Jonathan Hammer before he became known as an artist worked at Arion Press as a bookbinder. He studied fine binding and went on to produce very original and highly accomplished unique bindings some in collaboration with other artists such as John Baldessari. <br /> <br /> He also became a well-recognized visual artist producing drawings paintings and sculpture. Hammer has been represented by prominent galleries and exhibited by museums internationally. Given the porcine theme of the novel the witty artist made "meaty" images for Orwell's satire. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover
1949184993London: Secker & Warburg 1949. It's a beautiful thing the destruction of words First edition of the author's final book a warning against totalitarianism in any guise. Its effect on the English language has been remarkable introducing into common parlance terms such as "doublethink" "newspeak" and "Big Brother". Octavo 178 x 119 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco spine lettered and decorated green raised bands single rule to boards gilt burgundy endpapers twin rule to turn-ins gilt gilt edges. A fine copy. Fenwick A12a. hardcover
19644086DIANA 1964. 13. softcover. DIANA paperback
5539BÜRGER ALFONS. 1. softcover. BÜRGER, ALFONS paperback
73569London: Secker and Warburg 1998. Modern Literature COMPLETE EDITION first thus in the original publisher's box. Complete in 20 volumes. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and orange typographic endpapers. With the purple and orange typographic dust-jackets unpriced. Held together in the original publisher's card delivery box lined with polystyrene. Original Gardner's price of £750 affixed to box. A fine as-new set showing expected heavy wear to outer mailing box. 'The Complete Works of George Orwell endeavours to publish all that can be recovered of its author's writings. Every item published has been re-examined against original materials and has been augmented by the inclusion of all that was not then selected for publication or has come to light since.'. London: Secker and Warburg, 1998 unknown
