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1984117730Weston Massachusetts: M & S Press 1984. Limited edition of the manuscript in facsimile of Orwell's masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. Large folio one of 275 copies bound in one quarter navy Niger goat over marbled boards by Gray Parrot with gilt titles to the spine this is number 105. Edited by Peter Davison. Preface by Daniel G. Siegel. In fine condition. Housed in the custom buckram slipcase which is in 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. 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 books
195665928NY:: Harcourt Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Introduction by Richard H. Rovere. First edition. Stray pen mark on fore edge else very good in a very good minor edge wear small closed snag on rear panel dust jacket. . Harcourt, Brace and Company, hardcover books
194722262Evansville IN: Herbert W. Simpson 1947. First edition printed as a Christmas keepsake for the friends of the publisher of perhaps Orwell's most important essay reflections on doublespeak the mendacious misuse of language which Orwell fictionalized in Nineteen Eighty-Four but which despite Orwell's analysis seems to be as popular not to say pandemic today as ever. Issued as Typophile Monograph XIX. Fine copy. 12mo illustrations original printed wrappers stapled as issued. Fine copy. Herbert W. Simpson) unknown books
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
1950140941369London: Secker and Warburg 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. viii 212 pp. Publisher's green cloth lettered in red. Very Good with sunning to spine cloth light wear and a little foxing to cloth jacket unclipped spine panel sunned Very Good. A collection of essays demonstrating the acclaimed wit and insight of the British writer best-known for his dystopian novels including "Politics and the English Language" "Reflections on Gandhi" the titular essay and "I Write as I Please. Secker and Warburg hardcover books
1950WRCLIT75718New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1950. Cloth. First US edition 4000 copies printed. A bright near fine copy in good price-clipped dust jacket with a few creased tears some chips at the spine ends and some tanning to the spine panel on the verso. FENWICK D.3b. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
19479026524London: Collins 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition./fine. Bound in publisher's original green paper covered boards printed in white. From the Britain in Pictures series. 8 plates in colour and 17 illustrations in black & white. Some offsetting to front and rear free end papers as usual otherwish fine. <br/><br/> Collins hardcover books
1941140938363London: Searchlight Books 1941. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 127 pp. Original cloth green spine lettering. Near Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with toning to spine panel and top edge light wear Very Good. A nice copy. Three great essays by Orwell: "England Your England" "Shopkeepers at War" and "The English Revolution. Searchlight Books unknown books
1937140941370New York: Victor Gollancz 1937. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Left Book Club edition printed in wraps before the trade edition. xxiv 264 pp. Orange wraps lettered in black. About Very Good with typical bubbling to front wrap creasing and a bit of fraying to spine edges a little soiled bookplate on verso of front wrap. Includes three copies of the 4 pp. Left Book club ad laid in. <p>Orwell's examination of the downtrodden British working class and how politics specifically revolutionary socialist politics relates-- or rather really should-- relate to it. Photo-illustrated a la Let Us Now Praise Famous Men which it preceded. Victor Gollancz unknown books
19371906003Gollancz 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good first edition in a complete and slightly restored original and very rare dust jacket. One of only 2150 copies of the first edition. Housed in a handsome clamshell case with leather spine and corners and gold lettering and decoration. Gollancz hardcover books
1985005564London: Duckworth/BBC 1985. Edited with an introduction by W. J. West. 248p. original black cloth. Duckworth/BBC unknown books
1946WRCLIT45106New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. Gilt black cloth. First U.S. edition. Spine lettering rubbed in a few places a few faint marks on boards otherwise very good in an imperfect dust jacket showing some edgewear and rubbing and a couple of long creased tears in the lower panel. MODERN MOVEMENT 93. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1951WRCLIT39207Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books 1951. Orange and white wrappers. First Penguin edition 60000 copies printed. Toe of spine faintly bumped light dust-soiling to wrappers else very good. FENWICK A10h. Penguin Books unknown books
1946WRCLIT36941New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1946. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Toe of spine darkened otherwise a very good copy in heavily worn and chipped dust jacket. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books
2010Embry 182521Liveright 2010. First edition first printing. Smudge to lower edge else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Liveright, 2010. First edition, first printing. unknown books
51111Krakow: Wydawnictwo "Odnowa" 1981. Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers; 47 1 leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. Small tear to rear wrapper; last page loose. Still about very good. A samizdat collection of critical and literary essays by George Orwell translated by the Polish political philosopher and historian Marcin Król 1944-2020. Orwell wrote a good deal about Poland during and after WWII with his generally sympathetic tone especially on the question of Polish refugees settling in post-war Britain much appreciated and discussed in Polish circles. Król also provided the introduction to the collection which originally appeared in the émigré political quarterly "Aneks" in an issue especially dedicated to Orwell no. 6 1974. At the time of publication most of the selected essays were appearing in Polish for the first time. Published in Paris/London 1973-1989 "Aneks" was founded by the Polish émigré generation of 1968 and was dedicated to creating "an independent journalistic forum for the intelligentsia in Poland and outside of it." Polish translations published in "Aneks" in London often served as base texts for underground reprints in Poland as is the case with this edition.<br/><br/>As of December 2020 KVK OCLC show the copies at IISG Amsterdam Connecticut and Cornell. unknown books
51110London: Puls Publications 1985. 12mo 14 Ã 9.5 cm. Original printed card wrappers; 291 2 pp. Very good. First edition. A collected volume of George Orwell's 1903-1950 critical philosophical and political essays spanning his literary career 1931-1949 with many of the essays appearing in Polish translation for the first time. Orwell wrote a good deal about Poland during and after WWII with his generally sympathetic tone especially on the question of Polish refugees settling in post-war Britain much appreciated and discussed in Polish circles. This volume includes essays on literature under totalitarianism remarks on Mein Kampf Orwell's recollections of the Spanish Civil War writings on nationalism and Antisemitism in Britain. It also includes Orwell's reflections on other writers such as Zamyatin Tolstoy Shakespeare and Sartre. <br/><br/>The award-winning journalist and activist Anna Husarska completed the translation for Puls. In addition to translation work Husarska was the editor of a Polish opposition daily Gazeta Wyborcza prior to writing for The New Yorker and The New Republic. Husarska admits that translating Orwell had a major impact on her own writing. "I try to imitate him and before turning in any piece I have written I give it an 'Orwell read' and eliminate all the pretentious or boring words. Plus I check my pieces for political decency if you see what I mean" See interview with Husarska in Robert Snyder ed. Reporting the Post-communist Revolution pp. 45-58. Includes an introduction by the literary critic Maciej BroÅski. <br/><br/>As of December 2020 KVK OCLC show copies in Zurich Cambridge The British Library Oxford National Library of Scotland National Library of Israel Michigan and Stanford. unknown books
51109Pariz: Instytut literacki 1953. Octavo 20 à 13.5 cm. Original printed card wrappers; 254 2 pp. Very good. First Polish translation of this Orwell classic by the prominent journalist and activist Julius Mieroszewski 1906-1976. The novel was banned in Communist Poland with the first official translation appearing only in 1988. This translation for the Polish émigré community was published in Paris in 1953 and served as the base text for numerous underground or "second circulation" editions in Poland throughout the 1980s. <br/><br/>During WWII Mieroszewski worked for the Polish Government in Exile eventually settling in London and famously writing for the English section of the Polish émigré journal "Kultura" which was based in Paris. Mieroszewski was himself a socialist and much like Orwell strongly opposed the Soviet Communist dictatorship thereby being especially well suited to translating this work as well as the works of other socialist writers such as Bertrand Russell and Arnold Toynbee. <br/><br/>Scarce in the trade. unknown books
194863804London: Allan Wingate 1948. First edition. 263 pp w/appendix. Non-editorial gift inscription to front free endpaper else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. Illustrated. Orwell contributes a ten page introduction. London: Allan Wingate, unknown books
19681332753New York: Harcourt Brace and World Inc 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 574 477 435 and 555 pages; VG-/G; yellow red blue and green pines with black and white lettering; prices uncut "$8.95" on volumes 1 2 and 4 "$7.95" on volume 3; shelf wear and chipping to the edges of the dust jacket staining on dust jackets and text blocks; paperclip impression and staining from page 33 to 46 of volume 1 pages of volume 2 and 3 clean some underlining in volume 4; shelved above Literary Criticism. 1332753. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc hardcover books
20172295363The Easton Press 2017. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. Mayer Bill. Signed by illustrator. Limited edition one of 1200 copies. Signed by Bill Mayer without inscription on limitation page. 2017 Full-Leather. 218 pp. Brown full leather gilt and green titles and decorations all edges gilt marbled endpapers ribbon marker bound in. 10 tipped in color plates by Bill Mayer produced specially for this edition. A satirical look at Soviet totalitarianism using animals on a farm as an allegorical device. The revision of history by those in power is a theme that returns in Orwell's famous dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. While the setting of Animal Farm does not quite fit the parameters of a dystopian society Orwell's work here seems to progress directly toward the speculations about future society in Nineteen Eighty-Four common themes being the will to power power's corrupting influence and the obliteration of history. The Easton Press hardcover books
19862311331New York: Signet 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Toned. 1986 Mass Market Paperback. Animal Farm is an Allegorical novella by George Orwell first Published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell the Fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Then on into the Statilinst era of the Soviet Union. Signet paperback books
1946WRCLIT75720New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1946. Cloth. First US edition 5000 copies printed. Bookplate and 1946 small ink gift inscription on free endsheet otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket with original price and a few small chips and creased tears along the top edge. FENWICK D.1b. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books
1953WRCLIT75716London: Secker & Warburg 1953. Pale green cloth. First edition. Cloth slightly sunned at extremities otherwise a very nice copy very good or better in dust jacket with tiny nicks at tips and a minute strip of loss across crown of spine and an inch or so along the top edge of the front panel. FENWICK D.5a. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
