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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
1933140939547New York: Harper & Brothers 1933. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Publisher's mauve cloth with black and purple spine decorations. Very Good with lean to spine previous owner address stamp to front free endpaper and toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with chipping and several short tears at the edges rubbing and several small chips to the folds and light toning to spine. A lovely copy of Orwell's first published novel a semi-autobiographical work which much as the title promises details hunger and poverty in two major European capitals. Harper & Brothers unknown books
19491508141Secker & Warburg; London 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A near fine first edition First Published 1949 on the copyright page in a very good green dust jacket with the original price still present and with a wrap-around band advertising the book. Old small bookstore sticker on front free end paper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Secker & Warburg; London hardcover books
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
1949148854London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First edition of Orwell's classic dystopian novel. Octavo bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a limited edition binding with a striking glass eye onlay and three titanium skull-shaped buttons to the front panel pictorial endpapers with a collage of George Orwell's eyes and two flaps to the front pastedown that open to reveal small portraits from banknotes of Queen Elizabeth II and George Washington. An additional flap to the rear pastedown that opens to reveal a certificate of authenticity of the limited edition binding. One of 100 numbered copies this is number 60. In near fine condition. 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
194974London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First edition first printing with "First published 1949" on copyright page. Octavo. First edition rebound in modern red morocco with skull buttons and "Winston Smith" lettered in white to left breast with on-laid fake eye to chest with blind-stamped lines; title and name lettered in white on spine; front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns replaced with collage of Orwell's eyes including a secret "trapdoor" on front pastedown disclosing a picture of the Queen of England; minor toning to certain leaves including title page as pictured. Brilliant first edition in remarkable custom binding. First edition of George Orwell's 1903-1950 classic dystopian novel that has captured the imagination and fears of readers critics and social observers ever since its publication in 1949. Orwell's ninth and final book written and published in the closing years of his life Nineteen Eighty-Four provides a gripping and prophetic meditation on the twentieth century's totalitarian movements. Set in an imaginary future 1984 absorbed in conflict the story traces the fate of Winston Smith a diligent party worker in the superstate of Oceania who secretly abhors and yearns to rebel against the ruling Party and its dictatorial leader Big Brother. Equal parts science fiction and cautionary tale Nineteen Eighty-Four accentuates the historical revisionism propaganda practices linguistic manipulation and violence that characterized Stalinist Russia Nazi Germany and other ascendent totalitarian ideologies of the pre- and postwar world. Nineteen Eighty-Four would share important themes with Orwell's satirical and allegorical novella Animal Farm 1945 including an emphasis on social stratification the subordination of the modern individual to the collective the power and manipulability of language and the consequences of ideological revolution. Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published in the UK by Secker & Warburg in 1949 to high critical acclaim and in the US by Harcourt Brace & Company the same year. It has remained a mainstay on popular and critical reading lists ever since and its concepts and neologisms including "Big Brother" "doublespeak" "thoughtcrime" and "memory hole" have managed to endure as important terms in our twenty-first century lexicon-as has the eponymous phrase "Orwellian." In 2005 Time Magazine selected the book as one of the 100 best English-language works published between 1923 and 2005 and the Modern Library named it one of the best works published in the twentieth century. One of the greatest works of modern fiction here in first edition with a striking custom binding. Secker & Warburg unknown
1949140938000London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First British edition first printing. Very Good with foxing to cloth and lean to spine; bookseller ticket to front pastedown. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact faded at the spine edge worn lightly creased at front panel lightly soiled and tape repairs made to the verso at the spine ends causing a small bit of bleeding to the red ink at the spine joint ends. A lovely copy of Orwell's dystopian classic. Secker & Warburg unknown books
1933140942734London: Victor Gollancz 1933. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with rubbing to cloth and wear at extremities slight lean to binding. Glue repair to exposed hinge at title page erased pencil marking and bookseller label to rear pastedown. Orwell's first published book. Victor Gollancz unknown
1945000814Secker & Warburg 1945. Hardcover. Good/Poor. First edition first print published by Secker & Warburg in 1945. An all time classic and one of Orwell's most respected works. One of only 4000 copies in the first print run. Green cloth covers with a few small marks and wear to the edges with a spine lean. The first blank page appears to have been pasted to the front board perhaps to hide library marks The first page is the half title. Pages made from war time economy paper one or two pages with a very minor mark or crease but generally bright and clean. No inscriptions light spotting to the last page. Dustjacket with blue searchlight books imagery printed to the inside with a library lenders sheet pasted to the inside no other library marks the top and bottom edges have historical brown or kraft strengthening tape which overlaps slightly to the front and has helped to preserve this scarce jacket. Corners clipped with original price still in tact there is wear to the jacket spine with chipping to the top edge and an area of loss to the centre. The fore edges are rubbed the brown tape showing through in places from the rubbing. The jacket is now in a clear protective removable wrapper. Overall a good condition book in poor jacket. Also included are two letters one is from Dan Franklin It reads: "Dear Mr Ainsley Thank you for your letter about Animal Farm. Your faith that we can answer your query is I'm afraid misplaced. We simply don't have such information at hand. I am sending a copy of your letter to Peter Davison who knows every detail about Orwell and hope he will be able to help. Yours sincerely Dan Franklin." Dated 24 May 1991. Franklin was Publishing Director of Secker & Warburg at the time and is now an honorary member of the Royal Society of Literature. The second letter is the response from Davison an Orwell expert who wrote Orwell A Literary Life 1996 and edited Nineteen Eighty Four - The Facsimile 1984 plus The Complete Works of Orwell set 1998 and George Orwell - A Life in Letters 2011. He is an honorary founding member of The Orwell Society. His response clarifies details about the publication date of the book which was pushed back as a result of paper shortages due to the war. It reads: "Dear Mr Ainsly Martin Secker & Warburg have passed your letter about the publication details of ANIMAL FARM to me. I am editing George Orwell's works. In 1945 the Second World War was still in progress when that book was due for publication and paper was in very short supply. Publication was due in February 1945 as the page proofs show. The publication date was changed in proof to May 1945 but paper did not become available as had been expected. Publication was as Ian Willison's FLA thesis shows 17 August 1945 - Professor Crick's source. Your Sincerely Peter Davison." The letter is dated 28 May 1991. The original question presumably arose because the first print of Animal Farm states "First published in May 1945" however later impressions state "First published in August 1945". Also included are a large number of newspaper clippings relating to Orwell and Animal Farm. <br/> <br/> Secker & Warburg hardcover
19392011506London: Gollancz 1939. Second edition same month as very rare first edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. A very good second impression published in the same month June 1936 as the very rare first impression which was published in an edition of only 2000 copies. In the extraordinarily rare dust jacket in the same format as the first edition jacket but with quotes from early reviews and 2nd Edition stated on the front of the jacket. Some repairs to jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's cloth clamshell case. Gollancz hardcover books
1949GO027London: Secker & Warburg 1949 First edition first printing. Publisher's light green cloth top edge stained red; in the original green dust jacket designed by Michael Kennard issued simultaneously in green without any priority between them lettered in white. Near fine with some light fading along edges and a few minor spots to the fore-edge; in an unclipped jacket with some wear and rubbing to the spine spine chipped with some minor loss several small chips along upper panel edges and rubbing along folds. A very good completely unrestored copy. Fenwick A12.a Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel about a dystopian future in the year 1984. In the future Orwell has created the totalitarian government controls the civilian population with a detailed system of mental and physical control including omnipresent two-way TV screens that keep the citizens under constant surveillance. Any criticism of the government is strictly illegal and independent thought is persecuted as a "thoughtcrime." Even the newly adopted language "newspeak" which abbreviates many phrases and eliminates words deemed inessential served "not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view" of the new totalitarian regime but also "to make all other modes of thought impossible . that is a thought diverging from the state approved principles should literally be unthinkable in so far as though is dependent on words." This first British edition was published five days before the first American edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London: Secker & Warburg hardcover books
19392011506London: Gollancz 1939. Second edition same month as very rare first edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. A very good second impression published in the same month June 1936 as the very rare first impression which was published in an edition of only 2000 copies. In the extraordinarily rare dust jacket in the same format as the first edition jacket but with quotes from early reviews and 2nd Edition stated on the front of the jacket. Some repairs to jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's cloth clamshell case. Gollancz hardcover
19492507171<p>First Edition first printing "First published 1949" on copywrite page in first edition green dust jacket. DJ is fair with many chips at corners and large section missing from spine of jacket. Jacket has publisher price of 10s protected in mylar. Book is in vg condition - nice and tight binding straight. Light toning but otherwise unmarked interior. Green cloth is mostly sun toned especially at spine adn red stain at top edge is only lightly discernable. Back cover of cloth is more faded. Very nice copy in orgininal jacket4900</p> Secker & Warburg hardcover
193900221510LONDON: VICTOR GOLLANCZ. BOUND IN LIGHT BLUE CLOTH HARDCOVERS THIS DATED 1939 FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING IS CLOSE VG. 285pp WITH FOUR PARTS AND CLEAN ENDPAPERS EXCEPT FOR NAME ON FFEP SINCLAIR. CORNERS HAVE MINIMUM RUBBING. SPINE HAS EGG-SHAPED DARK STAIN OVER AUTHOR'S NAME AND SLIGHT WEAR TO TOP AND BOTTOM WITH 4mm SPLIT AT TOP OF SPINE. SEVERAL SCRAPES TO BODY OF SPINE. PUBLISHER IS VICTOR GOLLANCZ IN LONDON. GOOD CANDIDATE FOR BINDING INTO LEATHER. EXTREMELY RARE ITEM ! . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1939. VICTOR GOLLANCZ hardcover
1946140948877New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. Advance Reading Copy. Near Fine. Advance reading copy of the first American edition with publisher's ink stamp to front cover. vi 118 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps printed in black; housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase with custom half morocco chemise lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight loss at foot light toning to spine and edges minor creasing to front cover at top corner and trivial rubbing to rear cover. A great copy of this uncommon format preceding the publication of the first American edition. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
19491761<p>Binding tight fresh inside little writing with four Orwellian terms on the back pastedown. The has by far the biggest parts left but has much wear by spine and flap. Especially on the front-flap as seen from the front. So though considering the jacket looks very nice. Small ink writing on last pastedown</p> Secker & warburg hardcover
1935186110London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1935. It is the things that happen in your heart that matter First edition. This was Orwell's third book and his second novel into which he injected "some experimental writing possibly in the manner of James Joyce's Ulysses" Colls p. 36. It is the author's only novel with a female protagonist. Orwell's biographer observes that "like every other novel Orwell was to write it is the story of a rebellion that fails am attempt to break out of the walls of the cell whose walls constrain you only to discover a couple of hundred pages later that you have been returned to the site of your original imprisonment" Taylor p. 199 Octavo. Original black cloth title to spine in green. Housed in a custom black cloth solander box with yellow labels. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine bumped at ends occasional spots of wear to extremities edges and contents a little foxed: a very good copy. Fenwick A.3a. Robert Colls George Orwell: English rebel 2013; D. J. Taylor Orwell: The New Life 2023. hardcover
1949952P55DLondon: Secker & Warburg 1949. First edition. Leather. Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. The first U.K. edition of George Orwell's important and culture defining dystopian novel a superb finely bound copy. The first UK. edition with 'First published 1949' stated to the copyright page.Finely bound in a crushed morocco binding with gilt decoration to the front board bound by Period Binders of Bath.The important dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell a monumental cautionary tale that became an essential part of the zeitgeist after its publication.Orwell modelled his totalitarian government after Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany written in the fall out of the Second World War. This is the defining novel of the dystopian genre popularising the term 'Orwellian' as an ominous adjective.The original cloth is included with a mock of the binding design in ink to the front board. In a full crushed morocco binding bound by Period Binders of Bath. Externally fine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Secker & Warburg hardcover
1949005543Harcourt Brace & Company. Stated first American edition. $3.00 on the front flap. Stated first American edition. Near Fine Red DJ in archival cover minimal edge wear to corners. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
1949005542Harcourt Brace & Company. Stated first American edition. $3.00 on the front flap. Stated first American edition. Near Fine Blue DJ in archival cover minimal edge wear on spine. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
19475044Munich Germany: Vidavnitstvi Prometei Prometheus Publishing House 1947. First Ukrainian Edition. Softcover. Fine. pp. 91. Slim 8vo. Illustrated card covers measuring 15 x 20.5 cm. Black-and-white portrait of Orwell accompanying the only known preface he penned for this work wherein he details his motivations for writing the "fairy story". Exceptionally well-preserved with no evidence of any flaws to the extremities. Contents equally without blemish with firm sound binding. An exceedingly rare offering of this landmark of post-war Ukrainian printing. <br/><br/>While the translator Shevchenko "a highly-educated twenty-four-year-old" refugee and his small press Prometej or Promethius would secure an initial print-run of 5000 copies a mere 2000 would ultimately be distributed. Fearing that the small work was anti-Soviet propaganda which could antagonize their Russian counterparts the remaining 3000 copies would be confiscated by the United States military. As Andrea Chalupa notes in 'Orwell and the Refugees: the Untold Story of Animal Farm' "At the time Stalin was considered a great ally who had helped defeat Hitler; the Western powers acted as if beholden to him. The Americans handed over the seized copies of Animal Farm to the Soviet authorities. Russia had outlawed the Ukrainian language years ago during the time of the czar and the Soviet regime maintained the ban. The books were destroyed." Also contains the first appearance of Orwell's remarkable and unprecedented six-page preface. Written at the urging of the translator "Orwells preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm is a significant document in literary history. It describes the events of his life that shaped a masterpiece of political literature as well as the outlook we today call Orwellian. This preface is his deepest discussion of Animal Farm ever published." Source: Chalupa A. 2012. Orwell and the Refugees: the Untold Story of Animal Farm. See also Fenwick: A.10.T25. Vidavnitstvi Prometei [Prometheus Publishing House] paperback
