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Published by Signet Classic - NAL / New American Library, New York, NY, USA.
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Painted & Line Drawn Cover Art! (illustrator). 13th Edition By Publisher. 128 pages "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that wer forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine." >> Cover scuffing; cover creasing; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Thirty-Seventh Printing. Publisher's glossy wraps. nd (c. 1970). Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian - descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices - has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including cold war, Big Brother, thought police, memory hole, newspeak, doublethink, and thoughtcrime. . Covers very lightly worn, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . Signet Classics Series. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 128 pp.
Published by Penguin Books, Great Britain, United Kingdom, 1976
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good/ Fine. PHOTO Cover! (illustrator). 36th Edition By Publisher. 120 pages "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that wer forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine." stamp to front & last page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by Penquin, Great Britain, United Kingdom, 1974
ISBN 10: 0582348455ISBN 13: 9780582348455
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Quentin Blake Cover. (illustrator). NEW Impression By Publisher. 123 pages "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that wer forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine." >> Minor cover creaisng.; stamp to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by Signet Classic - NAL / New American Library, New York, NY, USA.
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Painted & Line Drawn Cover Art! (illustrator). 54th Edition By Publisher. 128 pages "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that wer forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine." >>Foxing to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by Penguin Books, Great Britain, United Kingdom, 1962
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Painted & Line Drawn Cover Art! (illustrator). 11th Edition By This Publisher. 120 pages "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that wer forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by Penquin Modern Classics., Great Britain, United Kingdom, 1973
ISBN 10: 0140008381ISBN 13: 9780140008388
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Painted & Line Drawn Cover Art! (illustrator). 30th Ed. 120 pages "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that wer forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by Arbor House, New York, 1985
ISBN 10: 0877957452ISBN 13: 9780877957454
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
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).
Published by Facts On File Publications, New York, New York, Bicester, England, 1984
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
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).
Published by Arbor House, New York, 1985
ISBN 10: 0877957452ISBN 13: 9780877957454
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
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).
Published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1946
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st US edition (Fenwick D.1b). [10], 243, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 10 essays by Orwell, beginning with his 75 page commentary on Dickens. he starts by noting, "Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing." VG (average wear/small po owner name stamp to h.t. page)/Abt VG (backstrip sunned/some extremity wear/small chunk from base of spine/rear panel). Linen cloth binding with grey stamped title lettering. Grey dust jacket printed in yellow & white.
Published by Worth Press Limited 978 1 84931 082 6, Bassingbourn, England
ISBN 10: 1849310823ISBN 13: 9781849310826
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
Book
[978 1 84931 082 6] 2013. (hardcover) As new. 360pp. 8vo. Black cloth, titles stamped in silver and red foil to front and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Red satin ribbon marker. As new. Lovely copy. Pseudonym of British Literature. Pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair.
Published by London: The Folio Society,, 1984
Seller: Wanda Schwörer, Engelsbrand, Germany
Book
Ln. im Schubet. Condition: Gut. 104 S. Sprache: Englisch. Auf Vorsatzblatt stehen Preise in verschiedenen Währungen, sonst gutes Exemplar Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 855.
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Book Club Edition. Later Printing. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. . Gilt on spine faded, head, heel and corners very lightly shelf-worn, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. Book Club Edition. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (vi), 118 pp.
Published by London: The Times Authors Reissue / Collins. [1970], 1947
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition thus. Original green card covers, staple-bound. No dustwrapper, as issued. 16 pp of text with 5 illustrations. A near fine copy with minimal rubbing to the very extremities. Containing two of the five essays from The English People, following the format of the first edition and reproducing the covers and title page. Scarce in this format. (Fenwick A.11b.) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1953
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. The first American edition. The eleven essays brought together in this posthumously published collection range from the autobiographical title piece and "Looking Back on the Spanish War" to his analysis of the motivations of writers ("Why I Write") and a balanced appraisal of Henry Miller ("Inside the Whale"). Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light wear to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is sun faded along the spine, with some very mild rubbing; otherwise very good.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1956
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. The first American edition. A darkly compassionate satire of capitalism's constraints set in 1930s London. From the library of Emmy Award-winning screenwriter David Lloyd (1934-2009), with his name on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original dark green cloth binding, with silver and light green titles. Mild wear to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is a little rubbed, with a closed tear to the bottom of the front joint and front fold, respectively, and some creasing to the front panel; else very good.
Published by London: Secker & Warburg., 1969
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
Second impression of the first edition. Four volumes. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pale blue endpapers, in dustwrappers. Portrait and manuscript frontispieces to each volume. An excellent better than very good set, the bindings square and firm, with bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners, the cloth with a little dustiness, and a knock at the head of the spine of volume III. The contents are clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. The top and fore-edge of the closed text block are a little spotted. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrappers, which are ever so lightly (and uniformly) faded to the spine, volume III with some white marks to the rear panel. All volumes have been clipped and re-priced by the publisher (£4.00 net to the front flap), as issued. An attractive set. This collected edition of Orwell's Essays, Journalism and Letters was compiled and edited by the author's widow and Ian Angus, librarian and one of the founders of the Orwell Archive. As Ian Hamilton wrote in his review, the editorial task was "huge", but "the only way of getting on [.] really close, conclusive terms" with the author. The result was, "[f]our bulging volumes of essays, book reviews, weekly columns, letters, broadcasts, all arranged and edited with considerable care. And one's first, awed, response is simply to the 'amount' Orwell wrote. How did he manage it?" ('New Society' 3 October, 1968; Fenwick D12) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
With a Foreword by Victor Gollancz. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. Original orange cloth wrappers. First Edition ("Left Book Club Edition / Not for Sale to the Public"). Part I of this book describes the living conditions of the coal miners in the industrial north of England, illustrated with photographs; Part II describes Orwell's own middle-class upbringing, and the development of his social and political conscience. The publisher Victor Gollancz -- a social reformer himself -- put up the funds for Orwell to live among the miners for some months. Gollancz also issued a 1937 trade edition (hardback with dust jacket), which did not include Gollancz's 14-page Foreword. This book preceded Orwell's postwar ANIMAL FARM and NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by about a decade. This is a near-fine copy (volume slightly askew, a few stray orange threads at some edges); though not a scarce book, it typically turns up soiled and frayed. NCBEL IV 691.
Published by Original Typescript. undated c.'s, 1950
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
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.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company [1946], New York, 1946
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First U.S. edition. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-118 [119-122: blank], black cloth, spine stamped in gold. "ANIMAL FARM, which owes something to Swift and Defoe, is his masterpiece, the best fable in the language with Boxer the cart-horse, the pigs and the donkey becoming household words." - Connolly, The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books. 93. 4500 copies printed. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-276. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 156. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 228-229. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 45-7. Lower corner tips bruised, some light spots to the upper front cover, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild rubbing, mostly to edges and lower spine, wear with small chips at head of spine panel and 11 mm closed tear at upper front spine fold. (28850).
Published by London: Secker and Warburg., 1949
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with red titles to the spine, in the maroon Michael Kennard designed dustwrapper. Top edge purple. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh with a little fading to the extreme edges. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The text block edge is a little toned with a few spots of foxing to the top edge, the purple however remains vivid and without fading. Complete with very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, that has a couple of small chips with associated creasing to the upper tip of the habitually faded spine. The present example, in entirely original condition, does retain some of its red colour to the spine panel rendering the white titles still legible and is therefore uncommon thus. Not price-clipped (10s net to the lower front flap). Housed in a bespoke grey and black quarter morocco solander case. The first printing of Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on 8th June 1949, the 25,000 copies issued in two colours of dustwrapper, identical in all but the background colour of the upper panel and spine, one being green, the other maroon. Although no precedence has been established, the maroon would appear to be scarcer of the two and is considered the more desirable. (Fenwick A12a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by London: Victor Gollancz., 1935
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First UK edition, first printing. Original black cloth with green titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding clean and square. The contents with a small ink name and date to the front free endpaper and some spotting to the text block edge. Complete with the rubbed and darkened dustwrapper which is a little nicked and chipped to the extremities resulting in small loss to the head of the spine. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. Housed in a bespoke black quarter morocco solander case. Burmese Days is George Orwell's first novel, although his second to be published in the UK. The book was published in America by Harper and Brothers in October 1934 and not until June 1935, after numerous revisions to the "potentially libelous novel", did Victor Gollancz print 2500 copies of the UK first edition (several months after the publication of A Clergyman's Daughter). The Gollancz first printing is a notable rarity in the original dustwrapper. (Fenwick A.2c.) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.