Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 0436410559 ISBN 13: 9780436410550
Language: English
Seller: Time Traveler Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Williamson, Alex (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Simply signed and dated on the title page by Richard Blair (George Orwell's adopted son) Full number line. Illustrated by Alex Williamson. Designed by Robbie Mahoney. ; 10 X 7.75 X 1.0; 250 pages; Signed by Associated.
Published by Folio Society, London, 2024
Language: English
Seller: Fialta Books, St Albans, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. La Boca (illustrator). 1st Edition. Limited to 750 hand-numbered copies. Limitation tip printed letterpress on Arena Smooth paper and signed by Elif Shafak and La Boca. Bound in metallic silver paper screen-printed in 3 colours with a design by the artist. Exclusive print, stickers and patch within a presentation folder. Signed by Illustrator(s).
Published by Suntup Editions, 2021
Seller: veryfinebooks, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Limited Edition. VERY FINE. Sealed without any flaws. Signed Limited Artist Edition. Personally signed by the artist Jim Burns. LIMITED TO ONLY 1,000 PRODUCED. Suntup Editions 2021. George Orwell. "1984" SIGNED ARTIST EDITION , limited to only 1,000 copies produced. Sealed without any flaws. Please note that these signed artist editions are not numbered. Sealed. Very Fine and new without any flaws. ARTIST GIFT EDITION. 6 x 9 trim size. Limited to 1000 copies. Introduction by New York Times bestselling author, Joe Hill. Full cloth, smyth-sewn binding. Two hits foil stamping over cloth boards. Paper endsheets. Seventeen full color illustrations by Hugo Award winning artist, Jim Burns. Signed by Jim Burns. Housed in a unique die cut silver paper covered slipcase. Bookmark with all orders. ABOUT- Originally published on June 8, 1949, George Orwell s 1984 is a dystopian masterpiece of tremendous influence and enduring relevance. Orwell s nightmare vision for 1984 is of a totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and the Thought Police, which persecute independent thinking. Orwell s world is one in which the news is manufactured by the authorities, no one is free, and individuality is obsolete. 1984 was the ninth and final book George Orwell completed in his lifetime. Parallels have been drawn between its subject matter and real-life instances of totalitarianism, communism, mass surveillance, and violations of freedom of expression. The novel uses several terms that have entered common usage in the English language including Big Brother, doublethink and thoughtcrime. American literary critic Lionel Trilling said of Orwell s classic, 1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present. The novel has been included in Time magazine s 100 Best English-Language Novels, the Modern Library s 100 Best Novels, and on the BBC s list of the 100 Most Influential Novels. On January 25, 2017, the book broke new ground when it suddenly appeared at the #1 spot on Amazon s bestseller list, an unheard-of occurrence for a book published 68 years prior. Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell s novel remains an urgent call to become aware of the assaults on our personal freedoms, and to defend humankind s most precious right: the freedom to have our own thoughts. George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936 1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics and literature, language and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian" describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Two Minutes Hate", "Room 101", "memory hole", "Newspeak", "doublethink", "unperson", and "thoughtcrime", as well as providing direct inspiration for the neologism "groupthink". Signed by Illustrator(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. In VG gilt-decorated black cloth slipcase with tipped-in color illustration ; Signed by illustrator on limitation page and on laid in publisher's certificate of authenticity. Full gilt-decorated brown leather binding, AEG, ribbon marker, 4 raised bands, illustrated endpapers, tipped-in color illustrations (foldout, and single page with tissue guards), double-page and single page black and white illustrations. Limited edition (no. 596 of 1200 copies); 4to; 318 pages; Signed by Illustrator.
Published by Various Publishers 1934-56, London, 1934
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First editions of the novels of George Orwell. Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional set, rare and desirable. George Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"â"describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practicesâ"is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
Published by Folio Society,, 2024
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
8vo., First Edition thus, text in two colours, with 8 illustrations; patterned boards, backstrip lettered in black, printed edges, patterned endpapers, ribbon marker, with exclusive print, stickers and patch in separate presentation folder, the whole housed in publisher's patterned presentation case. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR AND INTRODUCER. This splendid FS edition is published to commemorate the 75th anniverary of the first edition.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First American edition of Orwell's classic dystopian novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Written while Orwell suffered severely from tuberculosis and published shortly before the disease claimed his life, the novel is a work âof hectic, devilish, claustrophobic intensity⦠nightmarish in the tellingâ (Clute & Nicholls, 896). In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Named as one of Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century. âIt is quite simply a novel which has changed the worldâ (Pringle, 100 Best Science Fiction Novels 1). Fenwick A12a. Connolly 99. Anatomy of Wonder II:838. 100 Most Influential Books 93.