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19501392494New York NY: Harcourt Brace and Company 1950. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 278 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Green spine with age toned white and black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price uncut "$3.00" has tears and creasing along the spine head and tail edges and the fore corners mild chipping along the spine edges closed tears along the front head and tail edges staining and mild age toning throughout. Boards have moderate age toning mild fraying and bending wear along the spine head and tail edges and fore corners. Textblock has stains on pages 2-11 bending wear along the head corner of page 11 a green pencil mark on page 15 a light smudge on page 53 mild wear and age toning along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved in Room C. 1392494. Special Collections. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
1956315614New York: Harcourt Brace 1956. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo green cloth d.w. New York: Harcourt Brace 1956. First American Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Harcourt Brace unknown
1956005749Harcourt Brace and Company . Stated first American edition. 5.5" x 8". 8 3-248 2. Gift inscription on ffep. Unclipped DJ in archival cover small chips Included in these pages is the story of the paranoid and uncertain Gordon Comstock who tries to avoid any kind of connection with the "money world" and family responsibilities thus becoming the typical window aspidistra which sits in nearly every windowsill in the homes of Middle Class Britain. Only three thousand copies of this book printed. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
dola2611London: Secker & Warburg 1968. First Edition First Impression. 4 Volumes. 8vo. frontis. portraits & facsimiles. cloth. dws. dola2611 London: Secker & Warburg, [1968] hardcover
1951031377UK: Secker and Warburg 1951. First Edition 5th or later Printing. Cloth. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reset but 4th Edition 1950 Overall. In the same format as the 1st edition printed one year earlier. Book is good and quite bright. Cloth quite lightened and age toned in various places. Contents good. The wrapper is average and quite worn with loss to edges. Closed tears nicks and rubbing to the edges. Surface rubbing. More images can be taken upon request. Ref19299 <br/> <br/> Secker and Warburg hardcover
196849772London: Secker & Warburg 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4 volumes. 8vo. First impression. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt. Dust jackets not price clipped the spines lightly sunned. Volume 3 with spotting to the boards and foxing to the top edge with very light foxing to top edge of the other volumes otherwise the set is clean throughout. Bindings tight and square. The jackets are in very good condition overall. A very good set. Secker & Warburg hardcover
194750910Vilhelm Priors Forlag, 1947. Uncut, unopened in the original illustrated wrappers. A bit of wear to extremities, otherwise a very fine copy. Illustrated in colours.
194750910Vilhelm Priors Forlag 1947. Uncut unopened in the original illustrated wrappers. A bit of wear to extremities otherwise a very fine copy. Illustrated in colours. <br/><br/><em>First Danish edition of one of the most important literary works of the 20th century the satirical-political masterpiece that so magnificently reflects the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and brilliantly caricatures Stalinism. As Orwell himself put it with this work he deliberately tried "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole". Orwell "Why I Write". "Animal Farm" brilliantly portrays not only the corruption of the revolution but also how traits of human character themselves corrupt society. The greatest flaw of revolution is not the corrupt leadership on its own but also the greed indifference ignorance shortsightedness wickedness etc. that govern the individuals that make up the masses. The work was written between late 1943 and early 1944 when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was held in highest esteem in Britain among both the people and intelligentsia. Not surprisingly it was initially rejected by both British and American publishers and the publication of it was thus delayed. When it did appear 1945 it became a great commercial success however probably not least due to the soon to follow Cold War. The work is generally considered one of the best and most influential literary productions of the 20th century. </em> unknown
1949088951Harcourt Brace & Co. 1949. First American Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good clean tight condition - very top of spine frayed. Red FACSIMILE jacket in mylar cover. First American edition. Trade edition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking. <br/> <br/> Harcourt, Brace & Co. hardcover
1949267<p>This is George Orwell's last and most celebrated work. The first U.S. edition was printed by Harcourt Brace and Company in 1949 only five days after the U.K. Edition was published. The U.K. edition's first printing ran 26575 copies the U.S. edition ran approximately 20000 copies. While the dust jacket for this volume has seen better days it is otherwise in Near Fine condition. The binding is tight with only slight wear at the top and bottom. The pages are clean with no markings. The beige cloth cover lettered in red and black is clean and in great shape with just a small indent/wrinkle on the front. The book is being stored in a plastic covering to prevent any additional wear or tear.</p> Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
1946007173New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1946. 118pp. Green cloth binding. Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell a democratic socialist and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years was a critic of Stalin and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Previous owner name inside front cover - otherwise clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Harcourt Brace & Company hardcover
1950020106New York NY: Harcourt Brace and Company 1950. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. Octavo 8vo. ii 213 pages. Original red hardcover binding with a small bump to the top corner of the front board and slight darkening of the gilt spine lettering and decoration. The unclipped dustjacket is chipped at the spine extremities with numerous small creases and tears and slight soiling along several edges remaining substantially complete; protected in archival mylar. The original publisher's price is printed on the lower corner of the front inner flap The text is clean and unmarked. This edition was published two days before Orwell died at the age of 46 in January of 1950. First thus edition. Harcourt, Brace and Company Hardcover
1968005734Harcourt Brace & World. First Editions. Out of print. 4 Volume Set. Vol. 1: An Age Like This 1920-1940; Vol. 2: My Country Right Or Left 1940-1943; Vol. 3: As I Please 1943-1945; Vol. 4: In Front Of Your Nose 1945-1950. All Fine books in Very Good clipped DJs in archival covers light edge wear. Volume 2 closed tear. DJs in archival covers. . Fine. Hardcover. 1968. Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover
19491496<p>True us second print without club dot and with no first american edition stated. Has some water-damage on high point of the pages.<br />Very good otherwise.</p> Harcourt & Brace hardcover
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
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
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
