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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
140940731First Edition. Very Good. Early unattributed and bibliographically unknown Czech samizdat edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. Carbon copy sheets printed on rectos only bound in cloth covered boards with white plastic brads. 2 2-205 p. 15 mis-paginated: 16. Very Good with light soiling to covers. First and last several pages are worn and damaged with no loss to text. Pages sporadically stained throughout. <br /> <br /> A relic of dissident activity from the Communist-controlled Eastern Bloc wherein individuals 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. unknown books
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
1947190832Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei 1947. His anti-Soviet satire translated for Ukrainian refugees First edition in Ukrainian and the first to include a preface by Orwell. Around 5000 copies were printed for distribution in Ukrainian refugee camps in Germany but about 3000 copies were destroyed after American soldiers seized the books and gave them to the Soviet authorities. Chernyatynsky wrote to Orwell asking for permission to translate the novel in April 1946: "He explained how he and his countrymen had always been puzzled by the West's naïveté about the Soviet Union. They always wondered. whether anyone 'knew the truth'. He concluded 'Your book has solved that problem'" Chalupa p. 11. Orwell's own words corroborate this writing in his preface that "it was of the utmost importance to me that people in western Europe should see the Soviet regime for what it really was". Octavo. Photographic frontispiece. Original pictorial wrappers. A little toned short closed tear to foot of spine tiny nick to head of half-title. A near-fine copy. Fenwick A.10.T25. Andrea Chalupa Orwell and the Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm 2012. unknown
1941187322London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1941. Orwell opposes Hitler and Stalin First edition one of 500 copies issued in red boards for the Left Book Club alongside the public issue of 1300 copies in blue cloth; both are scarce on the market. This forceful attack on the British Communist Party's support of the Nazi-Soviet pact includes two essays by Orwell "Fascism and Democracy" and "Patriots and Revolutionaries". The left-wing publisher Victor Gollancz was harried by the British Communist Party for opposing Stalin and his alliance with Hitler. Party hostility drove Left Book Club membership down from 57000 to 15000 between 1939 and 1942. This volume was assembled in response collecting Left News articles critiquing Communist Party policy and was published in March 1941. After the Nazi invasion of the USSR in June the Party reversed its position and Gollancz likewise shifted to supporting the Soviet Union. He subsequently declined to publish Animal Farm because of its implicit criticism of Stalin making this his final book to include Orwell's work. Orwell's two contributions argue that the materialism of the left led them to underestimate fascism's emotional appeal and that the revolutionary moment possible after Dunkirk was lost as the ruling class reasserted itself. Octavo. Original red boards spine lettered in gilt. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper very minor pencilled annotations to contents. Spine sunned light wear at extremities. A very good copy. Fenwick B.5. hardcover
19491827<p>In great condition. No dot but first american printed. Price 3 dollars but ni blurbs that makes it first american state. Small chip on back of jacket and small tear by spine of jacket. Book completely fresh inside no writing jacket in excellent condition</p> Harcourt hardcover
193328480New York: Harper & Brothers. 1933. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good copy with just a trace of wear at spine ends in price clipped dust jacket with ¼" chipping at head of spine not affecting lettering and at bottom of spine obscuring "Harper" and with small chip at head of front panel. The dust jacket was once backed with tape removed by a conservator leaving only slight toning in a few areas and mild Japanese paper strengthening at folds. 1st US edition of the author's first book one of the great hobo novels of our time. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pp . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1949375968New York: Harcourt & Brace 1949. First American edition. 314 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's cloth; edges lightly rubbed and spine lightly faded. Light offsetting to endpapers. Else fine in blue dust jacket. First American edition. 314 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Harcourt & Brace unknown
1949255Germany: Publisher not identified 1949. Original printed wrappers. Octavo 16.5 x 11.8 cm. 79 pages. Text in Russian. A clean copy in very good condition with a lightly spotted title.<br /> <br /> A Russian edition of Orwell's masterpiece Animal Farm - the most important work of fictional political satire and an exceptional example of a notoriously fragile production. First it appeared in Posev a weekly social and political review Nos. 7-25 1949. In 1950 Posev published the first Russian edition in book form. This unknown edition that doesn't bear Posev's imprint could be either a signal edition published prior to 1950 or intended to be secretly distributed among the Russian Soviet soldiers deployed in German-occupied zones. <br /> <br /> In one of his letters to Gleb Struve George Orwell wrote the following "…The Possev people sent me a complete file of the paper containing your translation of Animal Farm. They now want to bring out an edition in book form to distribute in the Soviet Zone. This of course would cost money as the copies so distributed wouldn't be paid for. Meanwhile my agent tells me that he was already in negotiation with some other Russian publisher to bring out a translation. It's all in the air yet but I've suggested that if he does close with this other publisher your translation should be used as it would save time and I know the translation would be a good one. In that case I suppose you would be paid something – but as I say nothing is settled yet. But at any rate I shall see to it that the book appears in book form even if I have to finance it myself…" letter to Gleb Struve July 1949. <br /> <br /> Scarce. Not in the trade as of December 2020. [Publisher not identified] unknown
1947409Munich: Prometei Prometheus 1947. First Ukrainian Edition. Publisher's Illustrated Wraps. Good. A Good Paperback Book generally shelf worn and toned. A notoriously condition sensitive book heavily suppressed and oft-confiscated this copy presents better than most despite its flaws. Front and rear panel each bear marks of after market pricing. Spine papers show some flaking especially near crown. A small loss is present to front panel at top corner. Bottom corner shows staining presumably from moisture. No odor or mold present. Text is unmarked. Paperback. Octavo. 91pp. <p>11 April 1946</p> <br /> <p>Dear Mr. Orwell</p> <br /> <p>About the middle of February this year I had the opportunity to read ‘Animal Farm’. I was immediately seized by the idea that a translation of the tale into Ukrainian would be of great value to my countrymen… </p> . Prometei [Prometheus] unknown
198420790EWeston MA: M & S Press 1984. Privately Printed Limited and Numbered Edition. Copy number 9 of fifty-five copies fully bound by Gray Parrot with a special design in royal blue and black Niger goat and housed in a one-quarter leather traycase. The printing and binding were completed in the fall of 1984. Folio10 inches by 14 inches i-xxvi 381 pages comprising a facsimile of the original Nineteen Eighty-Four manuscript on each recto and the edited typescript draft on the facing verso. With gilt-stamping to the front board reading†War is Peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strengthâ€. Beautiful as new condition. One of the only George Orwell manuscripts extant published here in full facsimile with transcript notes by poet publisher and Orwell historian Peter Davison. As Davison notes in his introduction: “This facsimile reproduces all that is known to have survived of the preliminary drafts of Nineteen Eighty-Four that is about 44% of the published text of the novel.†Furthermore he writes: “Despite all the rewriting revealed by this facsimile it is remarkable how closely what has survived adheres to the main sweep of the narrative of Nineteen Eighty-Four. All the principle features except the Appendix on Newspeak are present suggesting that the story had been pretty fully formed in Orwell’s mind by the time he sat down to write it out. What can now be seen for the first time is in Sonia Orwell’s words her husband’s ‘actual working methods’. These are a compelling demonstration of the way Orwell fashioned and refashioned his story perfecting language and thought in order to create one of the most remarkable novels of the twentieth century.†The preface by bookseller rare book collector and ABAA member Daniel Siegel details not only how the manuscript came to be his but offers insight into the art and craft of literary serendipity and is a delight to read. He tells the story of his relationship with the Orwell manuscript beginning with how in late spring of 1969 Harold Graves of Scribner’s rare book department in New York introduced him to the piece about which Siegel notes “The leaves Harold showed me were nondescript handwritten in ink or typed with a great deal of overwriting on the typed pages. Much seemed illegible.†Siegel was obviously intrigued by the manuscript but walked away without it. However as kismet would have it on the following day he telephoned Graves with the news that“It’s a great manuscript and I don’t know why I shouldn’t have it.†And so he did. Eventually Siegel donated the Nineteen Eighty-Four manuscript to Brown University. M & S Press hardcover books
198420790EWeston MA: M & S Press 1984. Privately Printed Limited and Numbered Edition. Copy number 9 of fifty-five copies fully bound by Gray Parrot with a special design in royal blue and black Niger goat and housed in a one-quarter leather traycase. The printing and binding were completed in the fall of 1984. Folio10 inches by 14 inches i-xxvi 381 pages comprising a facsimile of the original Nineteen Eighty-Four manuscript on each recto and the edited typescript draft on the facing verso. With gilt-stamping to the front board reading†War is Peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strengthâ€. Beautiful as new condition. One of the only George Orwell manuscripts extant published here in full facsimile with transcript notes by poet publisher and Orwell historian Peter Davison. As Davison notes in his introduction: “This facsimile reproduces all that is known to have survived of the preliminary drafts of Nineteen Eighty-Four that is about 44% of the published text of the novel.†Furthermore he writes: “Despite all the rewriting revealed by this facsimile it is remarkable how closely what has survived adheres to the main sweep of the narrative of Nineteen Eighty-Four. All the principle features except the Appendix on Newspeak are present suggesting that the story had been pretty fully formed in Orwell’s mind by the time he sat down to write it out. What can now be seen for the first time is in Sonia Orwell’s words her husband’s ‘actual working methods’. These are a compelling demonstration of the way Orwell fashioned and refashioned his story perfecting language and thought in order to create one of the most remarkable novels of the twentieth century.†The preface by bookseller rare book collector and ABAA member Daniel Siegel details not only how the manuscript came to be his but offers insight into the art and craft of literary serendipity and is a delight to read. He tells the story of his relationship with the Orwell manuscript beginning with how in late spring of 1969 Harold Graves of Scribner’s rare book department in New York introduced him to the piece about which Siegel notes “The leaves Harold showed me were nondescript handwritten in ink or typed with a great deal of overwriting on the typed pages. Much seemed illegible.†Siegel was obviously intrigued by the manuscript but walked away without it. However as kismet would have it on the following day he telephoned Graves with the news that“It’s a great manuscript and I don’t know why I shouldn’t have it.†And so he did. Eventually Siegel donated the Nineteen Eighty-Four manuscript to Brown University. M & S Press hardcover
157728Weston Massachusetts: M&S Press 1984. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength First edition number 43 of 55 deluxe copies from a total edition of 330 copies specially bound by the Grey Parrot bindery quoting the infamous slogans of The Party on the front cover. Published in 1984 this sumptuous privately printed edition presents in facsimile all that survives of the preliminary draft versions of Nineteen Eight-Four a manuscript described by Sonia Orwell as "the only MS of any of George's books in existence". Orwell's classic work of dystopian fiction was begun in 1946 and composed in four stages. The extant manuscript provides the narrative of Nineteen Eighty-Four in outline from the beginning almost to the conclusion with some gaps. As noted by Peter Davison in his Introduction to this edition "despite all the rewriting revealed by this facsimile it is remarkable how closely what has survived adheres to the main sweep of the narrative of Nineteen Eighty-Four. All the principal features except the Appendix on Newspeak are present suggesting that the story had been pretty fully formed in Orwell's mind by the time he sat down to write it". In 1952 Sonia Orwell contributed "the original manuscript of Orwell's last novel partly in typescript but mainly in his own manuscript" to a charity auction at Christie's. It sold to Scribner's of New York who then arranged a sale to a collector in Kansas. Scribner's again handled the manuscript in 1969 when it was sold to Daniel G. Siegel. It is now at Brown University Library. This privately printed limited edition was limited to 330 copies of which there were two issues: 275 copies with morocco-backed marbled boards and 55 copies described as "special copies" which are bound in full morocco by the Gray Parrot bindery with a folding box. The present copy is from the smallest and most deluxe issue and the only one with the party slogans incorporated into the binding. The volume comprises a preface by Daniel G. Siegel an Introduction by Peter Davison 190 colour facsimile illustrations and a full transcript of Orwell's manuscript. Folio. 190 colour facsimile illustrations. Original blue morocco with black onlays by Gray Parrot Easthampton spine lettered in gilt panel to front cover with lettering "War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength" in gilt. Light grey endpapers. Housed in original blue morocco-backed grey cloth folding box with spine lettered in gilt. Fine condition. Presented in original numbered cardboard carton. hardcover
1935202710Victor Gollancz Ltd 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG-. First Edition First Impression. 12.5 x 19 cm. Publisher's black cloth boards with spine titles in yellowish green 317pp. Error on p188: Blask Mass for Black Mass as called for. One of 2000 copies published on 11 March 1935 50 of which were sent for distribution in Canada. Orwell was never satisfied with this book and prevented it from being reprinted during his lifetime; in a letter to George Woodcock in 1946 he wrote: "it was written simply as an exercise and I oughtn't to have published it but I was desperate for money". The boards are a little age worn with rubbing to fore edge corners and a little fraying to the spine corners. Internally the hinges are cracked though the boards are firmly attached and there is sporadic spotting finger marks and other marks throughout. The top corner of p77 & p221 is missing not affecting any text. A very presentable copy of the author's second and most rare novel now housed in a solander box. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care. Victor Gollancz Ltd hardcover
1946140941035New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Review copy with letter from the publisher folded in half and tipped in at front free endpaper protruding slightly over the textblock. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear to cloth. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket correctly lacking "Printed in the USA" on the rear flap; with light rubbing and edge wear light crease to front panel and front flap. Uncommon with publisher's letter tipped in. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1947BBO49<p><b>ORWELL</b> George:<br /></p><p><b><i>Kolgosp Tvarin</i></b> <i>Animal Farm</i>.</p><p>Translated into Ukranian by Ivan Chernyatinskii Ihor Shevchenko.</p><p>Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei 1947.</p><p>8vo. i901 pp.; printed pictorial wrappers.</p><p>Limited to 2000 copies for distribution to Ukranian refugees. With a newly contributed preface by Orwell addressing the audience of this publication and emphasizing his complicated feelings toward the Soviet regime. QUITE RARE.</p><p><br /></p> Vidavnitstvi Prometei paperback books
