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1985005564London: Duckworth/BBC 1985. Edited with an introduction by W. J. West. 248p. original black cloth. Duckworth/BBC unknown 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
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
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
194786274London:: Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. B0007B29MY . Part of the Britain in Pictures series. 8 color plates and 17 black and white illustrations. First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down offsetting to endpapers else very good in a very good trace edge wear and age toning dust jacket. ; 48 pages . Collins, 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
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
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
19681317068New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 555; VG/G; green spine with ivory yellow and black text; odd volume; dust jacket has lightly sunned exterior; some rubbing wear to edges; price clipped front flap; cloth shows quite light wear to exterior; strong boards; text block has light shelf wear to exterior edges; interior clean; frontispiece;. 1317068. FP New Rockville Stock. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc hardcover books
1968WN6711New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1968. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Books and dust jackets are very good. A scarce important set when found in its entirety in such condition. . First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Harcourt, Brace & World Hardcover books
186148182Cambridge / London: MacMillan and Co 1861. 1st printing presumed. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. General wear bit of faint spotting to right edge of front board. 19th C. poi to half-title upper margin. Very Good. xxviii 2 145 1 blank 24 pp. 24 page publisher catalogue at rear. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/> MacMillan and Co hardcover books
195018496London: Secker and Warburg 1950. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A solid presentable copy of the 1950 true 1st edition. Tight and VG very light offsetting along the edges and the spine in a crisp price-intact VG dustjacket with light chipping and several very small closed tears to the panel edges and the spine ends. An important early collection of Orwell essays including "Reflections on Gandhi" and "How the Poor Die" <br/><br/> Secker and Warburg hardcover books
1950WN183GONew York: Harcouet Brace and Company 1950. Gray cloth with silver spine lettering book has light shelf wear. Vinyl covered dust jacket chipped on edges and spine ends and with light overall wear and staining. Fascinating commentary from the great Orwell. First American Ed. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Harcouet, Brace and Company Hardcover 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
1984WRCLIT69708London: Virgin / 20th Century Fox 1984. Eight color 8 x 10 front of house lobby cards with captions. Faint creases otherwise near fine. A complete set of these FOH lobby cards for Michael Radford's prize-winning screen adaptation of Orwell's novel starring John Hurt Richard Burton Suzanna Hamilton et al. Virgin / 20th Century Fox 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
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
1980WRCLIT57316New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. 14302pp. Cloth. Black & white photographs. First American edition. Dust flecks to top edge small ink name on front free endsheet otherwise a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. The second volume of the authors' biography begun with THE UNKNOWN ORWELL. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1985161650New 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. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #161650 Arbor House unknown books
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
1985146311London: Duckworth / BBC 1985. Hardcover. NF/NF. Black cloth/boards; gold spine lettering. Sepia photograhic dj with black spine lettering. 304 pp. with 23 bw images. Editor W.J. West discovered a numerous scripts and pieces of correspondence by Orwell. These together with Orwell's noted news commentary on the course of WWII during the years 1941-43 form the basis of the book. "Not only is it fascinating in itself but it proves the extreme importance of the period to Orwel's literary development. Thus the setting of Animal Farm is seen to derive from a radio adaptation of a political fable set in a pig farm; and 1984 can be traced in its crucial hands of the Ministry of Information under Brendan Bracken which censored all overseas broadcasts and became the model of the Ministry of Truth. Duckworth / BBC hardcover books
1991WRCLIT34497New York: Harper Collins 1991. Cloth and boards. Photographs. First edition. Review copy with promo sheet and photo of Orwell laid in. Fine in dust jacket. Harper Collins hardcover books
198442558New York New York Bicester England: Facts On File Publications 1984. Octavo pp. 1-4 5-287 288 cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. A collection of personal reminiscences and memoirs compiled and introduced by Coppard and Crick. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some scuffing to black ink background mainly rear panel. #42558 Facts On File Publications unknown books