Eric & Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell
Language: English
Published by Leslie Frewin Publishers Ltd, London, 1974
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First Edition. Hardback octavo. Original publisher's cloth boards with unclipped dust jacket. xxi, 164pp. Beautifully illustrated throughout with a frontispiece by Edward Ardizzone, 38 black-and-white plates, and 2 double-page family trees. his highly important biographical memoir provides an unparalleled, intimate look at the formative childhood and teenage years of Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell). Written by his closest childhood confidante, Jacintha Buddicom, the text offers a crucial counter-narrative to the traditionally bleak depictions of Blair’s youth, portraying him instead as a happy, deeply literary, and imaginative young companion. The memoir tracks their close bond from their first meeting in 1914 until 1922, when Blair’s sudden departure to serve as an imperial police officer in Burma caused the pair to lose touch permanently until just months before his premature death in 1950. Condition Report: Fine / Fine. A nice example. The hardback binding is clean, tight, and square, completely free of shelf wear. Internally clean; pages are bright and crisp, entirely free from foxing, handling marks, or contemporary ownership inscriptions. The original dust jacket is an even colour, unclipped, free from the spine-fading, chips, or edge tears common to this title. A near flawless example of a vital piece of Orwellian biographical history. p. xxi numbered pages (comprising the title page, copyright data, contents, and the extensive introduction), 164 numbered text pages (some library logs stretch this to 169 pages if they count the unnumbered blank terminal leaves at the very back); 1 Frontispiece illustration by the famed artist Edward Ardizzone.38 Black-and-White Plates printed across 16 pages of gloss photographic inserts bound into the text block.2 Double-Page Family Trees detailing the Buddicom ancestral lines.…
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- Title
- Eric & Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell
- Author
- BUDDICOM, Jacintha
- Publisher
- Leslie Frewin Publishers Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0856320765
- ISBN 13
- 9780856320767
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Biography / Autobiography / Letters, BURMA INTEREST, JAPANESE INTEREST
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