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198542588New York: Arbor House 1985. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-304 illustrations cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as ORWELL: THE WAR BROADCASTS 1985. Lower corners bruised else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #42588 Arbor House unknown books
1985WRCLIT82992New York: The Artist 1985. Original ink portrait matted to approximately 9 x 13 cm 5 x 3.5" plus margins. Executed in black India ink with accents in China white or similar. Fine. An excellent portrait of Orwell by the Swiss- born artist 1941-2007 well-known for his work for THE NEW YORKER including covers and the NYTBR. The portrait is signed in full and dated '85 in the lower left. It was published in the Feb. 8 1985 issue of the NYTBR as an accompaniment to a review of Daphne Patal's THE ORWELL MYSTIQUE by Virginia Held. Accompanied by a photocopy of the review and portrait as published. The Artist unknown books
1935WRCLIT75715London: Victor Gollancz 1935. Black cloth. Spine slightly cocked front free endsheet neatly excised usual modest tanning otherwise a good sound copy. First UK edition of the author's second book preceded by the 1934 US edition. This edition consisted of 2500 copies plus a second printing of 500 copies but is somewhat less common than the US edition 2000 copies. Orwell modified the text for this edition and added an Author's Note in an effort to avoid the possibilities of any libel action a fear on the part of prospective British publishers that had led to its first appearing in the US. FENWICK A2.c. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1955WRCLIT71672Berkeley: Berkeley Young Socialist League 1955. 215 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Stapled at left with mimeographed upper wrapper. Old folds from mailing lacks lower wrapper which included YSL info and adverts a bit of sunning else very good. A possible candidate for being the first separate US printing of Orwell's essay first published in POLEMIC May 1946 then published separately in the UK the same year by the Socialist Book Centre and eventually collected in SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT both UK and US 1950. The 1 1/3 page "Publisher's Remarks" by James Robertson is dated 29 January 1955 and curiously remarks about the lack of availability of the essay in the US. The YSL was one of the most visible and influential of the leftist campus groups of the 1950s and evolved as an offshoot of Max Shachtman's Workers Party. Robertson's "Prefatory remarks" reflect the YSL's Trotskyite affiliation by taking issue with Orwell's "slight acquaintance" with Trotsky's writings. OCLC/Worldcat locates a single copy at Brown. Not In Fenwick and even if wanting in chronological priority and perhaps even wanting in authorization by Orwell's estate of significant bibliographic and contextual interest. OCLC: 54827397. Berkeley Young Socialist League unknown 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
1953WRCLIT71869London: Secker & Warburg 1953. Pale green cloth. First edition. Cloth slightly sunned at extremities ink name on endsheet otherwise a very good copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a bit of modest handsoiling. FENWICK D.5a. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1940WRCLIT75799London: Victor Gollancz 1940. Tall octavo. Black cloth. Modest tanning 1941 pencil ownership inscription on free endsheet otherwise a very good copy. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed of which "several copies were destroyed in an air raid" - Fenwick. Uncommon. Includes Orwell's smart essays on Boys' Weeklies Henry Miller and Charles Dickens. FENWICK A.8a. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1949WRCLIT72263London: Secker & Warburg 1949. Pale green cloth lettered in red. Spine sunned and slightly cocked a few small spots to cloth ink ownership initials on front free endsheet but a good sound copy without dust jacket. First edition first printing one of 25575 copies thus. FENWICK A.12.a. MODERN MOVEMENT 99. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1947WRCLIT75724London: Collins 1947. Small quarto. Printed boards. Illustrations and plates. Small stamp in German a school prize on front panel of dust jacket trivial rubbing at spine ends usual tan offset to endsheets delimited by jacket flaps otherwise a very good or getter copy in dust jacket. First edition. Published in the uniform BRITAIN IN PICTURES series. FENWICK A11.a. Collins hardcover books
1937WRCLIT75714London: Victor Gollancz 1937. Large octavo. Limp orange cloth wrappers lettered in black. March 1937 ownership date and name inside front wrapper top edge a bit dust-darkened otherwise a very good copy. First edition Left Book Club issue. This issue includes the foreword by Victor Gollancz that was omitted from the trade issue. This LBC issue consisted of 44150 copies; the trade issue consisted of only 2150 copies. FENWICK A.5.a. Victor Gollancz 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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