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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
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
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
1949131133126London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. FIRST EDITION. Stated "First published 1949" on copyright page in correct dust jacket. A Good copy in green publisher's cloth with a small stain to the spine and some toning there as well small tear starting along back edge of backstrip. In Fair dust jacket crimson variant with 2-3 chip to foot triangular chip to front panel scrape to front panel as well with a bit of loss spine sunned archival mending tissue repairs to verso. A very homely but serviceable copy of the classic dystopian novel. Secker & Warburg hardcover
159701London: Times Newspapers 1970. First Edition. First Edition. <br /> <br /> The Times Authors series presented gatherings of resources relating to an author including newspaper reviews offprints of articles film stills and various ephemera created for use by students and available for purchase via mail order from the "Times Education Services" office in London. This edition noted as No. 2 focused on George Orwell. Other authors featured included Dylan Thomas Arnold Wesker and Allan Sillitoe. <br /> <br /> As noted on the folder on offer each issue in the series was "carefully selected and arranged but organised in a loose-leaf format with no imposed sequence. For individual study or group work this flexibility will be found especially helpful for there are numerous points of entry and the direction and centre of interest can depend on the book or books being studied." <br /> <br /> Among the resources in the edition are:<br /> <br /> Eight gatherings of reproductions of newspaper articles and reviews relating to Orwell with a number of newspapers represented including "The Observer" "Scrutiny" "The Daily Mirror" "The Times Literary Supplement" "Tribune" and "The Guardian." <br /> <br /> A reproduction of four articles written by Orwell originally published in "As I Please" his weekly column for the left-wing British newspaper "Tribune."<br /> <br /> A comic strip based on the 1954 animated film directed by John Halas and Joy Batchelor and created by the film's lead animator Harold Whitaker. <br /> <br /> A poster advertising Halas and Batchelor's film with a striking black-and-white drawing of charismatic swine leader Napoleon. <br /> <br /> A double-sided character and set design illustration and a booklet featuring ten black-and-white photographs from the 1954 film.<br /> <br /> An offprint of two of the five essays from Orwell's 1947 book "The English People" and reproducing the book's covers and title page. <br /> <br /> A bifold bibliography of Orwell's publications and critical works relating to Orwell.<br /> <br /> "The English People": Fine in staple-bound wrappers. <br /> <br /> Harold Whitaker strip: Small scratch on the front wrapper else Near Fine in side-stapled wrappers. <br /> <br /> Poster: 19.5 x 14.5 inches folded. About Fine.<br /> <br /> Newspaper reproductions bifold bibliography design illustration and stills booklet: Very Good plus to Near Fine with some faint offsetting along the top edges. <br /> <br /> All materials housed in a pictorial green folder measuring 12 x 9 inches. <br /> <br /> Folder and contents housed in publisher's original plastic envelope Near Fine. Times Newspapers unknown
1947144748Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei 1947. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling. Half title. Single portrait. Text block printed on poor paper but this example is quite clean and crisp overall. An excellent copy. This is the first Ukrainian edition of Orwell's classic anti Russian Anti Stalinist satirical allegorical novella. It was first published in August 17 1945 in London. Quite simply the plot revolves around the farm animals rising up against the farmer and trying to create a just and equal society. Orwell was very much influenced by the events in Stalinist Russia and he wrote the book in 1943/44. In 1946 Ivan Shevchenko wrote to Orwell asking him for his approval to publish a Ukrainian translation of the book. The translation was verbally done as the book was read aloud to Ukrainian Displaced Persons DP's who were amazed at the contents. The book was an immediate hit with the Ukrainian people but others were not too sure. Many copies were seized by the Americans and turned over to the Soviets who destroyed them. I am sure the DP's cherished the book and helped to see that copies were saved. The book has become quite rare due to the censorship and the poor production material. This particular copy belonged to a DP that emigrated to Canada after the war. They must have treasured it immensely. 1947 Vidavnitstvi Prometei unknown
1949209319New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1949. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Faint rubbing along panel edges. Chip at spine heel. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
120009San Francisco CA: Arion Press 2013. three-piece cloth printed on front and back gilt stamped spine slipcase. Arion Press. large 8vo. three-piece cloth printed on front and back gilt stamped spine slipcase. 204 pages. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the artist. Fine in fine slipcase.<BR> <br /> <BR> <br /> A special edition of George Orwell's 1945 allegory with illustrations by Jonathan Hammer b. 1960 who worked for a time as a bookbinder at the Arion Press. As the Stanford University historian Peter Stansky writes in his introduction "Orwell is a writer of extraordinary power and this may be his greatest masterpiece a perfect text. As a fable about human nature it transcends the political era in which it was written. It is in so many ways a despairing book but it has such compassion and empathy. In the end there is still a glimmer that possibly some day we might create a better and more equal society." Composed in Monotype Times New Roman and letterpress printed on ivory Zerkall mouldmade paper. The 24 relief prints are letterpress printed from polymer plates made from films scratched by the artist with an etching needle for the black images and with photo-polymer plates made from overlay drawings in pencil for the red tints. Arion Press unknown
1935186134London: Victor Gollancz 1935. His first work of fiction First British edition of the author's first novel and second book following Down and Out in Paris and London 1933. Burmese Days was based on Orwell's service in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. The work was initially rejected by Gollancz amid concerns that its caustic critique of colonialism might be considered libellous to those portrayed so it was published in America the year previous to its publication in Britain. For the British edition Orwell changed the names of characters based on real people and wrote a new author's note spuriously claiming that "all the characters in this book are entirely fictitious". Cyril Connolly reviewed Burmese Days as "an admirable novel. It is a crisp fierce and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian. The author loves Burma he goes to great length to describe the vices of the Burmese and the horror of the climate but he loves it and nothing can palliate for him the presence of a handful of inefficient complacent public school types who make their living there. I liked it and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a spate of efficient indignation graphic description excellent narrative excitement and irony tempered with vitriol" New Statesman and Nation p. 18. Octavo. Original black cloth spine lettered in green. Cloth a little rubbed spine leaning extremities slightly bumped with occasional spots of wear ring stains to rear cover: a very good copy. Fenwick A.2c. Cyril Connolly "New Novels" New Statesman and Nation 6 July 1935. hardcover
140947162San Francisco CA: The Arion Press 2013. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition. #192 of a limited 300 copies signed by the artist. Bound in publisher's decorative ochre colored boards over maroon buckram cloth with spine stamped in gilt housed in the original maroon and ochre buckram cloth slipcase; prospectus laid-in. Fine in a Fine slipcase. A handsome Arion Press production of one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. Illustrated by Arion Press bookbinder Jonathan Hammer "Given the porcine theme of the novel the witty artist made 'meaty' images for Orwell's satire." The Arion Press Bibliography99. The Arion Press unknown
19462511007Harcourt Brace and Co 1946. first. hardcover. fine/very good. First American edition as stated on copyright page. Book fine. Dust jacket very good minimal edge wear. Former owner's name and date to top of front free end paper. Comes in supplied slipcase. Harcourt, Brace and Co unknown
19491392732London UK: Secker & Warburg 1949. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 312 pages. In Good plus condition lacking issued dust jacket. Boards are wrapped in publisher's light green cloth with red lettering along the spine are lightly cocked have bending along the fore corners stains on the rear board and moderate age-toning along the extremities. Textblock has light soiling on some pages pencil marks on the rear pastedown a sticker stain on the front end-page mild wear along the edges stains on the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved case 2. 1392732. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Secker & Warburg hardcover
1949140944404London: Secker & Warburg 1949. First Edition. Very Good. First British edition first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with spine lettered in red and red topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Very good with lean to binding uneven fading and some spots to cloth with light fraying at the spine ends. Secker & Warburg unknown
196553682Harcourt Brace & World. As New. 1965. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 397 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . Harcourt, Brace & World paperback
18403Signet Classics/ New American Library. As New. N.D. Paperback. 3548225624 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ISBN: 9783548225623. Copyright 1949. -- with a bonus offer-- . Signet Classics/ New American Library paperback
198385193New American Library: Signet Classic. As New. 1983. Paperback. 0451518004 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 268 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . New American Library: Signet Classic paperback
200214573North Clarendon Vermont U.S.A.: Everymans Library. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0375415033 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer-- . Everymans Library hardcover
200014558Jaffrey New Hampshire U.S.A.: David R Godine Pub. New. 2000. Paperback. 1567921337 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless -- with a bonus offer-- . David R Godine Pub paperback
19492312113Harcourt Brace and Co 1949. first. hardcover. near fine/very good. First American edition as stated on copyright page. Book near fine. Dust jacket very good. In front is a review of the book attached by the Buffalo Evening News. Harcourt, Brace and Co unknown
