Orwell george davison peter editor (14 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover orange boards with blue titling on the spine and cover. Includes b/w illustrations, Further Reading and Index, 597 pages. The DJ is in Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This is an As New (appears Unread) copy of the first edition (1st printing). iN an As New dust jacket. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. This is the book, "George Orwell - Diaries" as edited by Peter Davison and published in 2009 by Harvill Secker in London. This is the First Printing, as evidenced by a statement and number line to that effect. Here is a brief excerpt from the dust-jacket write-up : "George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. Eleven diaries are presented here, and we know there may be two more from his time in Spain hidden away in the NKVD Archives in Moscow. Covering the period 1931 - 1949, this volume follows Orwell from his early years as a writer up to his last literary notebook. --- The diaries provide a new and entirely refreshing insight into Orwell's character and help towards an understanding of his great works." The book is already Out of Print ! TITLE : Diaries AUTHOR : George Orwell EDITOR : Peter Davison IMPRINT : Harvill Secker PLACE : London DATE : (2009) EDITION : First Edition, First Printing (with statement and number line to that effect.) STATUS : Out of Print - OP PROVENANCE : From the personal collection of John Philip Jones, with his joint marital bookplate on the front paste-down, and on the half-title a joint marital signature dated 2010. Jones was an esteemed professor at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, and the author of several books. DETAILS : Trade Hardcover - 6" x 9 1/8", dark blue, paper-covered boards and spine - gilt lettering on spine; black end-papers; contains an Introduction, brief list for further reading, an Index; viii + 520 pages; photo-pictorial dust-jacket. CONDITION -- BOOK : VERY GOOD -- JACKET: FAIR -- This is a previously owned book, that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Gilt lettering on spine is bright; case displays a hint of handling (a wee dent to the front, and bottom edges of boards have slight shelf rub), else clean and presentable; text-block edges are clean. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - Bookplate on front paste-down, inked signature on half-title, else the interior is clean and free of marking. DUST-JACKET - Original 2009 price still on front flap. Edge wear includes small tears and crimping; jacket surface displays creasing and rub. Extremities of flaps are considerably worn and torn.The whole is housed in a clear mylar sleeve to ensure against further wear.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Fine hardcover in a Fine dj. First Edition, First Printing. Selected and annotated by Peter Davison. 542pp.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 597 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 624 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 560 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

[978-0-87140-410-7] 2012. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 597pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Diaries of George Orwell. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens. (Ideas).

Hard Cover. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Octavo, pp. x, 258. Illustrated with 4 plates of black and white photographs. Bound in black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the publisher's unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust-jacket. Peter Davison, an eminent authority of Orwell's life and work, compiles a treasure trove of recently discovered material including letters and documents.…

dj. First Edition. First edition thus. Over 40% of Orwell's handwritten fourth draft is reproduced in facsimile with a typescript, including corrections, on opposing pages. According to Orwell's second wife, Sonia (as quoted in Peter Davidson's introduction), "George always threw away all his [manuscripts], letters etc., so his actual working methods are very badly documented." His manuscripts that have survived are generally typescript, making this facsimile of the original handwritten manuscript particularly interesting. Folio grey linen boards, gilt-stamped spine; 381 pages. About very good with covers bright but showing a few edge dings, spine slightly sprung and text block just beginning to fall away, pages age toned with foxing to edges extending somewhat to margins; in bright, near fine dust jacket with minor creasing and slight tanning along front spine fold.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First American Edition 2012; full number-line beginning w/0. Deep red boards, red textured spine wrap, grey impressed spine titles, moderate shelf wear, sticker residue. Front boards features grey facsimile of George Orwell signature and Liveright Publishing emblem. Pages very good, clean. With thirty illustration from the diaries scattered throughout. Frontipiece portrait of Orwell at typewriter with decorative wrting in b.g. Dark grey endpapers. Small red Denver Public Library stamp at front endpaper and top exterior text block; label for same at back pastedown. Original dust wrapper, light shelf wear, spine toning; unclipped 39.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Intriguing wrapper by Evan Gaffney Design features portrait of Orwell wrapping around to back panel with Orwell's left eye enclosed by circular spine titles. Near very good first edition in same wrapper. Features an introduction by the ever skeptical Christopher Hitchens shortly before his swift passing in 2011. Peter Davison edited this collection and the twenty volumes of Orwell's Complete Works. Presented here is a major literary event of the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. This groundbreaking volume at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of his masterpieces "Animal Farm" and "1984". Which together have sold more than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. Personal entries cover the tragic death of his first wife and Orwell's own decline as he battled tuberculosis. Exhibiting great brilliance of prose and composition, these treasured dispatches, edited by the world's leading Orwell scholar Peter Davison, exhibit "the seeds of famous passages to come" - New Statesman - and amount to a volume as penetrating as the autobiography he never penned. Printed in the United States of America. 597 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.…

[Modern Literature] COMPLETE EDITION, first thus, in the original publisher's box. Complete in 20 volumes. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, and orange typographic endpapers. With the purple and orange typographic dust-jackets, unpriced. Held together in the original publisher's card delivery box, lined with polystyrene. Original Gardner's price of £750 affixed to box. A fine, as-new set, showing expected heavy wear to outer mailing box. 'The Complete Works of George Orwell endeavours to publish all that can be recovered of its author's writings. Every item published has been re-examined against original materials and has been augmented by the inclusion of all that was not then selected for publication or has come to light since.'.…

First Trade Edition. Quarto (35cm); full maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's plain card slipcase; xx,381,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine (unclipped) dustjacket, lacking the original card slipcase. Handsome edition of Orwell's towering dystopian novel, reproducing to scale the only extant manuscript for any of Orwell's works. The manuscript originated with Orwell's widow, who offered it to a charity auction, and ultimately ended up in the vault in the rare book room of Scribner's Bookstore in New York, where it was acquired by bookseller and publisher Dan Siegel, who offers a lengthy preface to this edition. With an introduction and notes by professor and Orwell scholar Peter Davison, who transcribed the manuscript. FENWICK A.12.M8; LEWIS, p.139; BOOKER, pp.208-213.…