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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
12657Original Typescript. undated c.1950's. Typescript. Perfect bound in card wrappers with blue bordered typed label to the upper cover. A play in three acts with character descriptions. 116 mimeographed pages the text on rectos only. Hand corrected / altered in black ink throughout. In very good condition the binding a little rubbed and marked the contents with some silverfish erosion to the edge of the blank front endpaper and tanning to the text block edge otherwise clean. Almost certainly unique. An early adaptation of George Orwell's novel for the stage. We have been unable to find any information pertaining to the author perhaps a pseudonym or evidence of the play in this form ever making it to production. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Original Typescript. undated c.1950's unknown
1967R3649Bangkok: White Lotus Press 1967. Paperback. Very Good/no dj. 1.00. Orwell George. Burmese Days White Lotus Press paperback
19581ivAb0014bNew York: Popular Library 1958. Book. Good. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo or 12° Duodecimo: 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 252 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear crisp pages and clean text. Frayed spine. Creased corners. Previous owner's note written on inside front cover page. Old weak pages. Popular Library Paperback
19582iiiAc0008fNew York: Popular Library / Published By Arrangement with Harcourt Brace And Company 1958. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Popular Library Ed Publ. February 1958. 12mo or 12° Duodecimo: 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 252 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine. Light foxing on pages. Popular Library / Published By Arrangement with Harcourt, Brace And Company Paperback
193543036Gollancz. London. 1935. First edition. No DW. Original black cloth. Sl. lean to spine head and tail of spine crumpled and sl. worn and frayed joints sl. frayed and partially split but cloth holding well corners rubbed. Inner hinge partially visible with small brown stains along split but is still sound. Pages sl. browned pages 12 - 17 are spotted some other occasional light spotting. Please contact us for photographs or more information. VG-. hardcover
19972111902158500521Sairyusha 1997. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 386p. Size: 20cm Sairyusha paperback
500302662Penguin Sans date.
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
1962RO60079039Time Inc.. 1962. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 263 pages. Tampons de bibliothèque sur le premier plat et en pages de garde.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
RO40050470Penguin books. non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 299 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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
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
9788535916003CIA DAS LETRAS. new. "No sistema capitalista para que a Inglaterra possa viver em relativo conforto 100 milh�es de indianos t�m que viver �� beira da inani��o - um estado de coisas perverso mas voc� consente com tudo isso cada vez que entra num t�xi ou come morangos com creme."" � dessa forma unindo a pegada do inconformista com a mordacidade do literato que George Orwell pinta as rela��es entre a metr�pole imperial brit�nica e suas col�nias na ��sia na segunda parte de O caminho para Wigan Pier publicado originalmente em 1937. � na primeira parte por�m que ele d� conta com seu costumeiro estilo l�mpido ""de vidra�a"" como ele dizia direto e vigoroso de sua visita ��s �reas de minera��o de carv�o em Lancashire e Yorkshire no norte da ilha brit�nica. A pobreza e o sofrimento atroz dos mineiros s�o retratados ali com um grafismo brutal desde as condi��es esqu�lidas de moradia ao medo das frequentes ondas de desemprego que assolavam a regi�o colocando em risco extremo a sobreviv�ncia f�sica dos trabalhadores e de suas fam�lias. Orwell j� havia mergulhado a fundo na experi�ncia da pobreza quase absoluta nos dois anos que viveu perambulando como mendigo e trabalhador desqualificado pela Fran�a e pela pr�pria Inglaterra - experi�ncia narrada em seu primeiro livro Na pior em Paris e Londres. A isso somou-se o impacto desses dias passados lado a lado com os mineiros de carv�o o que resultou n�o s� na pioneira pe�a de new journalism express�o que s� apareceria a partir dos anos 1960 nos Estados Unidos da primeira parte de Wigan Pier como tamb�m na an�lise amarga e muitas vezes sard�nica da estrutura social dos preconceitos de classe brit�nicos e das fragilidades e inconsist�ncias da esquerda intelectual bem-nascida que lemos na segunda parte da obra. Neste livro vemos o futuro e celebrado autor de cl�ssicos universais j� em plena floresc�ncia de seu projeto liter�rio e existencial que o levou a abandonar os privil�gios de sua classe a execrar qualquer forma de imperialismo e a mergulhar de corpo e alma na vida dos trabalhadores pobres e dos exclu�dos sociais. CIA DAS LETRAS unknown
76 pages. Features: Dealer Profile - Uno Langmann of Vancouver; Love's Auctioneers and Appraisers of Vancouver - Orest Buchinski; Profile of Aaron Milrad - Toronto Ceramics Collector; Seen at the Shows; Collector's Queries; Famous Group Portaits in the Frans Halsmuseum at Haarlem; Art Glass - lesser names offer a modern alternative; The Ceinture flechee of old New France, by Ankaret Dean; Was Painted Floor a compliment to sea-faring owners?; Mid-Victorian gardens at Hamilton's Dundurn Castle; Edwin R. Crane - General Store Merchant of Orwell, Ontario in Elgin County; Caring for Works on Paper - Part II - Deterioration - the Improper Environment; Handwoven Hats - A Sense of the Past, Part 3; 'Wilno' furniture suffers identity crisis; What's New; A talk with Robert C. Woolley of Sotheby's; Casa Loma memorabilia return to Toronto. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
feb123905Polirom. Used. For more details please contact me Polirom unknown
1976R100066495Gallimard. 1976. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 313 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 946-Espagne, Portugal
2251451803.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
7984P., Editions Gérard Lebovici, Champ Libre, 1988, 1 vol. in-8 (242 x 147) broché sous couverture à rabats illustrée d'un portrait photographique de Orwell, de 262 pp. + table. Dos insolé, très bel exemplaire par ailleurs.
QWA-18686Gérard Lebovici / Champ Libre, 1988, in-8 br. (14,5 x 24), 262 p., présenté et traduit par Claude Noël, photo sur le plat sup., couverture à rabats, bon état.
0140018778.Gmass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
19782-0156186233Mariner Books 1978. Paperback. New. 576 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.50 inches. Mariner Books paperback
H07OS-00074Harcourt Trade Publishers. Collectible - Very Good. Collectible - Very Good. Slipcase Very Good. 4 Volume Set. George Orwell Essays Correspondence Literature Collections NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Harcourt Trade Publishers unknown
