Coming Air by Orwell George, First Edition (14 results)

Condition: Fair. 1962. First Edition Thus. 232 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Slight cracking to binding, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to first page. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges with splits to spine edges.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle-class suburbia.George "Tubby" Bowling is a middle-aged insurance salesman, a job at which he grimly excels, dutifully paying the mortgage on an average English suburban row house, and supporting an ungrateful family. As the years roll by, he comes to feel like a hostage to his wife and children, regarding them as wardens and himself as a prisoner.One day, after winning some money from a bet at the races, George steals away from his family to visit the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAFthe perfect ending to his failed escape."A work of rare vigor and imagination."New York Herald-Tribune Book Review Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel from George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: Fine, no spine creases. Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Comic, abrasive prophetic novel. Bright tight clean unread copy. 278 pp. MM paperback in glossy color illus wraps.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First French edition. Translated by Claude de Leschaux. Printed wrappers. Wraps heavily foxed, small faint stain and short tear on the rear wrap, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 278 pages in very good, clean condition. Pages slightly yellowed. Ex-library, with only one small stamp on the top edge, and very minor label remnants on the back free endpaper. Blue cloth with illustration on the upper cover and titles on the spine. Light wear on the edges, including some stains. Corners are a little bumped and frayed. Light stains at the two corners of the upper cover. White DJ with illustration and white titles. Small chips on corners and head of spine. Edges and lower jacket are darkened and stained. Binding tight. Not price-clipped. GOOD+/GOOD+. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First thus: first printing of the Secker & Warburg uniform edition. (Originally published by Gollancz in 1939.) Publisher's original green cloth with red lettering to spine. Red top stain. Cloth faded in places. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Contemporary bookseller's sticker to front paste-down. In good only dust jacket, browned and scuffed to spine folds with some chips and tears to edges and loss to spine ends and foot of lower panel. Price of 9s.6d. to flap partly covered by remains of price label. A very good copy of this collectible early edition of Orwell's 1939 novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First US Edition. DJ in archival cover, edge wear, price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition in about very good condition. Wear to the jacket at the spine ends, corners, and a few scattered stains. Price of 49?, written on flap. Surprisingly uncommon in the first USA edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1950. 278 pages. First American edition, first printing. One of only 8,000 copies printed in the first American printing. The UK edition of this title precedes the American edition by eleven years. This copy comes from the library of Dr. Willard Thorp, author, noted literary historian, editor and critic who taught at Princeton University for more than 40 years and served as the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University, and co-founded what is now their American Studies Program in 1942. The Thorp Library, at Princeton, was dedicated in 1991, and a namesake scholarship was established in his honor. Dr. Thorp signed this edition in pencil on the upper right corner of the front endpaper, including Princeton, below his signature, and the date, 17.xii'54. As for condition, the book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are sound. Pages and endpapers are clean. The book's flaws are limited to color-fading of cloth on the front and rear panels. Original DJ with $3.00 price intact on flap. DJ shows shallow chiipping along edges with rubbing to extremities and slight age-darkening along rear. Minimal soiling. VG/VG with all flaws noted.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Good price clipped dust jacket. Rubbing along panel edges. Chip at spine heel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Coming Up For Air by George Orwell,1st edition, 2nd printing, Victor Gollancz, 1939, Three thousand first editions of Coming Up For Air were sold of which a thousand were a second printing released in the same month as the first printing. This second printing copy has been professionally rebound and has a facsimile dust jacket. George Orwell's sixth novel and a scarce find. Professionally replaced blue boards with the original spine strip on the spine. The copy has clean replaced end papers. The contents of the book are lightly browned. Page 32 has a 3cm tear. A few pages have marks on them.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1950. First American Edition of George Orwell's Coming Up for Air. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Not price clipped. Wrapper age toned in places. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref18043.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. In original binding in good condition. Small wear low down and some foxing inside. Still a good example in its original binding. The first impression was only 2000 copies and are very sought after.