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0428480535.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
198451638Secker & Warburg 1984. Sm. folio First Edition with 381 plates of facsimiles; grey cloth gilt back green endpapers a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Secker & Warburg, hardcover
1977WELLER9780451524935Signet 1977. New. New book. Signet unknown books
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
1946140940089New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. Advance Reading Copy. Hardcover. Near Fine. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. Review copy with publisher's ink stamp to front cover. Bound in publisher's original wraps printed in black. Toning and light staining to wraps erased pencil notation to rear cover. A nice copy of this uncommon format preceding the publication of the first American edition. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1946315622New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. First American edition. 118 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Full black gilt morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey a.e.g. Fine. First American edition. 118 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
19451803040Secker & Warburg 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine first edition; "first published" date on copyright page matches date on title page. Light tanning on board edges very minimal browning on top edge of board. Bookseller's stamp on rear free endpaper. In very good dust jacket with original price 6s. on front flap. Wear and chipping at head and tail of spine tiny closed tears on bottom front cover and top back cover. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
194630132New York: Harcourt Brace 1946. First American edition. Black cloth fine in slightly rubbed dust jacket. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace hardcover books
2003WELLER9780452284241Penguin Books 2003. New. New book. Penguin Books unknown books
1945107259Secker & Warburg 1945. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A fine second edition published in the same month August 1945 as the first printing in a very good dust jacket with the original price of 6s still visible on the front flap of the jacket small triangular piece is loose at left top of front dj. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Jacket states second edition. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1946WRCLIT71674New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. Printed wrappers. Publication information and date stamped on front wrapper. The upper wrapper has a large and disagreeable splashy coffee cup ringmark that is shadowed through the first blank and faintly on the half- title so just a fair copy in all other regards sound and very good. Advance "confidential" reading copy of the first American edition. The number of recipients who shared in the "confidentiality" of receiving copies is not readily accessible but experience suggests there were quite a significant number of them. Not in Fenwick in this format where such advance formats are not always noted. MODERN MOVEMENT 93. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1946W098GONew York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1946. Original black cloth with bold gilt spine lettering. Book has only minor crumpling at spine ends and wear at corners. Unpriceclipped dust jacket designed by Art Brenner is worn joints flap folds and chipped at spine ends and on edges. Lower panel of jacket a little yellowed and soiled. A nice first edition copy of this classic. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. Harcourt, Brace and Company Hardcover books
194597542London: Secker & Warburg 1945. First British edition of Orwell's timeless allegorical novel-- a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism. Octavo original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. The dust jacket has the Early List for 1945 to the rear panel and the Search light motif in red to the reverse of the jacket. The jacket has a stated price of 6s. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example of this classic Orwellian tale. "A political fable that partly recounts in an allegorical mode the aftermath of the Russian revolution and partly illustrates a belief in the universal tendency of power to corrupt" Stringer 22." Animal Farm is Orwells masterpiece" Connolly 93. Time Magazine chose it as one of the 100 best English-language novels 1923 to 2005; it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1947019563Munich: Prometheus; Prometej 1947. Book. Very Good condition. Paperback. First thus edition. Octavo 8vo. 91 pages. Original paperback binding with minimal shelfwear including minor scuffing to the closed page edges; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. The first page has small tears starting near the staples. Translated by Igor Shevchenko under the pseudonym John Chernyatynskyy. Includes a black and white photographic portrait of George Orwell. In March 1947 Shevchenko printed around 5000 copies to distribute among Ukrainian refugees in the displaced persons camps of postwar Germany and Austria. But only an estimated 2000 books distributed. U.S. Soldiers suspecting the books of being anti-Stalin propaganda confiscated about 3000 and handed them over to Soviet authorities who had them destroyed. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition in Ukrainian. Prometheus; Prometej Paperback books
200370797Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2003. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition a volume in The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series. Signed by Kim Stanley Robinson who wrote the introduction and illustrator Frank Kelly Freas on the title page. Orwell's satiric fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong. Collector's Notes laid in. Octavo. Full red leather binding with elaborate gilt stamping three raised bands decorative endpapers and a ribbon marker. A fine copy. The Easton Press hardcover books
200410791Norwalk CT: Easton Press 2004. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Octavo 118pp. Full red leather title in gilt on spine. Decorative gilt design on cover and spine. All gilt edges silk endpapers and silk bookmark. A fine example. Easton Press unknown books
19341511006Harper and Brothers 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good first US edition so stated on the copyright page. Short teat on front free endpaper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1935140938436London: Victor Gollancz 1935. First British Edition. Very Good. First British edition first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding with titles on spine lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and worn bumped at the crown. Rear hinge repaired. Contents toned and foxed. Victor Gollancz originally rejected this novel publishing it only after the success of the American edition the previous year. Victor Gollancz unknown books
1934GO016New York: Harper and Brothers 1934 First edition first printing. One of 2000 copies. Publisher's red-orange cloth lettered in black pictorial pale yellow floral endpapers; in the original yellow dust jacket lettered in black and red-orange. Book about fine with only a hint of wear to the extremities else bright and clean; price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and chipping to the extremities minor toning to the spine a hint of light soiling to the otherwise fresh panels. Overall a near fine and very attractive copy of this extremely scarce title very rare in the dust jacket. This first American edition of Burmese Days is the true first printing of Orwell's second work and first novel. Victor Gollancz initially rejected the controversial novel but agreed to publish the first British edition in 1935 after the success of the American edition and making several edits to the text. Notably Orwell would later call the Gollancz edition "garbled" and when Penguin prepared its first edition in 1940 he insisted that the publishers use the American text rather than the English. An extremely scarce title in any condition this copy of Burmese Days is especially rare because of its excellent condition and lack of any repairs or restoration. Based on Orwell's experiences serving in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 Burmese Days is set in colonial Burma that the publisher's tout as a "cynical sometimes brutal answer to the Rudyard Kipling 'white man's burden' school of novelists - a caustic portrait of the white man in the East as he really is." Specifically it tells the story of the conflicted timber merchant John Flory who struggles to reconcile his belief in British superior with his appreciation of the Burmese people and culture. Interestingly while English publishers Victor Gollancz Jonathan Cape and William Heinemann all declined to publish Burmese Days for fear of a libel suit from officers in the British colonies American publisher Harper & Brothers flaunted the novel' controversial subject matter. Indeed as the dust jacket boldly proclaims on the front panel "If the prophet is unsung in his own country the truth-teller also is rarely welcome in his home town.". 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York: Harper and Brothers hardcover books
193467096New York: Harper & Brothers 1934. First American edition and true first preceding the British edition by one year of Orwell's first novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper to Mabel Fierz "With very best wishes from Eric Blair." It was Mabel Fierz who introduced Orwell to Leonard Moore who would later become his literary agent after salvaging the manuscript for Down and Out from the writer's discarded papers. After first meeting Orwell in Southwold Suffolk Mabel and her husband Francis became close friends with the writer and often invited him to stay at their house in Golders Green. On one such occasion Orwell gave Mabel the manuscript which had just been rejected by Faber and telling her to save only the paperclips said she should throw it away. Instead she took it in person to Moore who in turn took it to Gollancz. In gratitude thereafter Orwell presented Mabel with signed copies of all his published works. Mabel Fierz authorial inscription typed letter signed by Mabel's son Adrian Fierz loosely inserted. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Burmese Days was several years in the writing. Orwell was drafting it in Paris during the time he spent there from 1928 to 1929. He was still working on it in 1932 at Southwold while doing up the family home in the summer holidays. By December 1933 he had typed the final version and in 1934 he delivered it to his agent Leonard Moore for publication by Victor Gollancz who had published his previous book. Gollancz smarting from fears of prosecution from another author's work turned it down because he was worried about charges of libel. Heinemann and Cape turned it down for the same reasons. After demanding alterations Harpers were prepared to publish it in the United States where it made its debut in 1934. In the spring of 1935 Gollancz declared that he was prepared to publish Burmese Days provided that Orwell was able to demonstrate it was not based on real people. Extensive checks were made in colonial lists that no British individuals could be confused with the characters. Many of the main European names have since been identified in the Rangoon Gazette and U Po Kyin was the name of a Burmese officer with him at the Police Training School in Mandalay. Gollancz brought out the English version on 24 June 1935. Harpers brought out Burmese Days in the US on 25 October 1934 in an edition of 2000 copies. In February 1935 just four months after publication 976 copies were remaindered. The only American review that Orwell himself saw in the New York Herald Tribune by Margaret Carson Hubbard was unfavourable: "The ghastly vulgarity of the third-rate characters who endure the heat and talk ad nausea of the glorious days of the British Raj when fifteen lashes settled any native insolence is such that they kill all interest in their doings." A positive review however came from an anonymous writer in the Boston Evening Transcript for whom the central figure was "analyzed with rare insight and unprejudiced if inexorable justice" and the book itself praised as full of "realities faithfully and unflinchingly realised." On its publication in Britain Burmese Days earned a review in the New Statesman from Cyril Connolly as follows: "Burmese Days is 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." Orwell received a letter from the anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer as follows "Will you allow me to tell you how very much indeed I admire your novel Burmese Days: it seems to me an absolutely admirable statement of fact told as vividly and with as little bitterness as possible." It was as a result of these responses that Orwell renewed his friendship with Connolly which was to give him useful literary connections a positive evaluation in Enemies of Promise and an outlet on Horizon. He also became a close friend of Gorer. In 2013 the Burmese Ministry of Information named the new translation by Maung Myint Kywe of Burmese Days the winner of the 2012 Burma National Literature Award's "informative literature" translation category. The National Literary Awards are the highest literary awards in Burma. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
19481338777London: Secker & Warburg 1948. First Thus. Hardcover. Small Octavo; 237 pages; G/G; Green spine with Black text; Fully bound in green cloth with red text; Dustjacket protected by mylar covering fraying and small open tears along spine edges and at corners brown spots on front cover marking in pencil on rear cover price clipped; Boards have browning along head edge of rear cover discoloration along edges; Textblock has light foxing along hinge between rear endpaper and pastedown; Shelved Hardcover Fiction. 1338777. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
19392011506London: Gollancz 1939. Second edition same month as very rare first edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. A very good second impression published in the same month June 1936 as the very rare first impression which was published in an edition of only 2000 copies. In the extraordinarily rare dust jacket in the same format as the first edition jacket but with quotes from early reviews and 2nd Edition stated on the front of the jacket. Some repairs to jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's cloth clamshell case. Gollancz hardcover books
19509042baZ1New York: Harcourt Brace 1950. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 278 pages. Hardcover binding with minor sunning to the spine and minimal shelfwear. The original unclipped dustjacket has a small chip to the top of the spine is lightly to moderately browned on the spine and top of the rear panel and is slightly shelfworn; protected in archival mylar.The text is clean and unmarked. George Orwell 1903-1950. No statement of edition on copyright page: First American edition. Harcourt, Brace Hardcover books
1946119076London: Secker and Warburg 1946. First edition of Orwell's essential collection of literary criticism. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. In these essays Orwell applies to writers as diverse as Dickens Kipling Frank Richards and P. G. Wodehouse a new method of critical analysis. The essays are not political tracts their main emphasis is literary but they open with the assumption that every writer is in some sense a propagandist and that subject-matter imagery even tricks of style are governed by the "message" that the writer is attempting to put across. Secker and Warburg hardcover books
194641085NY: Reynal & Hitchcock 1946. First American edn. 8vo pp. 243. A VG tight copy in somewhat worn and mended dj. Reynal & Hitchcock unknown books
