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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
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
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
1959029760UK: Secker and Warburg 1959. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Complete Uniform Edition of George Orwell with dust wrappers Designed by Denis Piper. The vast majority being thew 1st printing with this new wrapper design. The complete set of eleven volumes 1959-1962 comprising: Nineteen eighty-four; Animal farm; Critical essays; Down and out in Paris and London; Keep the aspidistra flying; Homage to Catalonia; Burmese days; A Clergyman's daughter; The Lion and the Unicorn; The road to Wigan pier; Coming up for air. Eleven volumes. The complete set of Secker & Warburg's Uniform Edition issued with the variant dust wrappers designed by Denis Piper 1928-1987. The bulk of the Uniform Edition was issued in the publisher's generic green and white wrappers however between 1959 and 1967 Secker periodically issued those same volumes in these striking Denis Piper-designed dust wrappers. Good examples of the individual volumes are hard to find and complete sets of all eleven volumes are very rarely encountered. Whilst some copies with the Piper-designed wrappers went to the trade the majority were issued to schools and public libraries and unmarked examples in good condition are scarce. These eleven copies were issued to the trade only one of the wrappers is price-clipped and all eleven volumes are in very good to near Fine condition. Save for a one volume with a bookplate and another with a inscription all are in nice condition . Whilst the list of books issued in the Uniform Edition often includes Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant' there was no issue of that title in a Denis Piper dust wrapper; this is the complete set of Denis Piper's work for the Edition. The eleven volumes comprise: Nineteen eighty-four 1962; Animal farm 1962; Critical essays 1960; Down and out in Paris and London 1960; Keep the aspidistra flying 1959; Homage to Catalonia 1959; Burmese days 1961; A Clergyman's daughter 1960; The Lion and the Unicorn 1962; The road to Wigan pier 1959; Coming up for air 1959. Books are very good clean and bright. Contents good. Some age toning/foxing.The wrappers are very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Age toning/darkened spines to some wrappers. Odd closed small tears. Difficult editions to find. More images can be taken upon request. RefA1234 <br/> <br/> Secker and Warburg hardcover
140947689Czechoslovakia: No Publisher 1970. First edition. Very Good. Early unattributed Czech samizdat edition of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four. 201 pp. Carbon copy sheets printed on rectos only bound in homespun yellow and white wallpaper wraps with blue pen manuscript spine. Very Good with light edge wear slight bumping and lifting to corners and minor soiling to wraps. Minor loss to title page margins; some soiling at margins. <p>A relic of dissident activity from the Communist-controlled Eastern Bloc wherein people reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications or "samizdat" often by hand circulating these documents from reader to reader. The perfect novel to be found in samizdat format: Nineteen Eighty-Four was banned and prohibited to be published in communist countries for its strongly anti-totalitarian message. [No Publisher] unknown
1934140943128New York: Harper & Brothers 1934. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original cloth binding with titles printed in black lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with soiling and foxing to cloth fading to spine and a small hole at the front spine joint. Light foxing soiling and wear to textblock edge pages toned. Orwell's first published novel. Harper & Brothers unknown
1952140948859New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1952. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Advance review copy with publisher's slip tipped to front free endpaper. xxiii 1 232 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth stamped in olive green. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and faint foxing to cloth. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning soiling and shelf wear. Shallow clips to corners but price of $3.50 intact date "Apr 21 1952" stamped on front flap; it would be superseded by the May 15th date on the review slip. <p>A handsome review copy of Orwell's Spanish Civil War memoir first published in his native Britain 14 years earlier to a deafening silence that Orwell surmised reflected an informal boycott due to its critique of Stalinist Communism. "Ten years ago it was almost impossible to get anything printed in favour of Communism; today it is almost impossible to get anything printed in favour of Anarchism or 'Trotskyism'" he wrote. It has become widely seen as one of the most important firsthand accounts of the Spanish Civil War and the lead-up to WWII. Harcourt, Brace & Company unknown
1949140949363New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1949. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. 314 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in red and black. Near Fine with several faint specks of foxing to textblock edges. Ownership signature to front pastedown light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with lightly sunned spine panel and trivial edgewear. A crisp and square copy of Orwell's last and most-celebrated work. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
19341836<p>Ultra scarce first print. Uk prints of Orwell tends to be the earliest but not here.<br />Dust-jacket very worn but complete. Front-flap hanging on to the other parts of the jacket as seen. Back of jacket gone up 1/3 or 4th from spine of jacket.<br />Jacket in plastic changing colour and very noticeable on verso of jacket which is brown.<br />Previous ex-library book also has marks on both pastedowns also from having jacket seperated from book. Marks on jacket from being taken out from jacket.<br />Extremely hard to acquire in jacket.</p> Harper & brothers hardcover
193519487London: Gollancz 1935. A first edition first printing of 'A Clergyman's Daughter' by George Orwell published by Gollancz in 1935. Without inscriptions sumptuously rebound in full calf blue leather with marbled endpapers gilt titles and raised bands. This is a superb binding and presents beautifully. Small black stain to the bottom edge. Fairly heavy spotting to the prelims and to the rear pages. Some scattered foxing internally. Orwell's second novel and rarest by far. Though Orwell thought little of the book as a whole he wrote to Henry Miller in August the next year saying "that book is bollox but I made some experiments in it that were useful to me." One of only 2000 copies printed. Gollancz hardcover
192988London: St James Park Press 2022. Eye-catching book art First St James Park Press edition number 29 of 140 copies signed by the illustrator Hugh Ribbans. This copy is also inscribed by the printer with a quotation: "James Freemantle. 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.'" The font used for the letterpress publication Intertype Times Roman was cast on a working farm. Freemantle established his fine-press in 2014 and has also produced an edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four 2021. His Animal Farm pays homage to the popular first paperback edition published by Penguin in 1951 being in wrappers and of a similar size. The artist Hugh Ribbans specializes in linocuts and has exhibited at such venues as the Society of Wildlife Artists the Society of Wood Engravers and the National Theatre. Orwell's classic work was first published in 1945. Octavo. With 21 linocut illustrations in various colours by Hugh Ribbans some printed on Barcham Green Hayle hand-made paper. Intertype Times Roman font printed on Zerkall ohne-Silurian mould-made paper. Original plain white wrappers fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With dust jacket featuring wraparound multicolour linocut illustration. Housed in publisher's acrylic slipcase with acetate title label loosely inserted as issued. Minor scratches to acrylic slipcase as expected. A fine copy. paperback
1938140949318London: Secker and Warburg 1938. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. vi 314 pp. Bound in publisher's light green cloth lettered in gilt on spine green topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear soiling and mottling to cloth. Foxing to textblock edges endpapers and first and last few pages offsetting to free endpapers. Slightly over-opened at title page. Fenwick A.6a.<br /> <br /> <p>The first edition of George Orwell's disillusioned memoir of his time serving in the Spanish Civil War. Readers sympathetic to the Republicans were dismayed by his account of the internal strife that tore apart the leftist front and the Daily Telegraph suggested that his memoir lead to the conclusion that "perhaps only Franco can save Spain from tearing herself to pieces." The unity that was ultimately imposed by the victorious general came at a high cost: tens of thousands of Spaniards were executed after the war and hundreds of thousands sent to concentration camps. Homage to Catalonia of course was banned. Secker and Warburg unknown
194916350NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR Harcourt Brace 1949 first American edition a bit of tanning to the dust-wrapper spine else fine in like bright dust-wrapper. A very nice copy of this most important Burgess #99 choice. The source book for the thrice filmed dystopia. Harcourt, Brace & Company unknown
1949009015New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1949. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American Edition stated on copyright page. Near-fine bright and clean inside and out with slight bumping to corners. In a near-fine dust jacket $3.00 price intact with slight fading to spine and top edge of flaps touch of rubbing to top of spine and tiny dark spot near bottom of spine. A very attractive copy of this 20th Century high spot. <br/> <br/> Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
