Pseudonym blair eric arthur (23 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good to Fine. 33rd Edition. 120 pages "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that weer forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine." >> Cover scuffing & minor creasing; few interior pages are dog-eared. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" t…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 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. Quentin…

Soft Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. 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, awarene…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good/ Fine. 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. PHOTO Cover! (illustratore…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 10th Edition By This Publisher. 120 pages "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine." >> Staining to lower left corner of backcover & last few pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7…

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 chun…

[Modern Literature] FIRST AMERICAN PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.255; [1], ad. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, green endpapers, all edges green, priced 25c. Contents clean, cheap paper lightly toned as expected, covers with light wear only. Near fine. Issued as a sensational pulp novel under the tag-line 'A saga…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American edition. 200pp. Octavo [21 cm] Gray cloth over boards with silver stamping on the backstrip. Subtle bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Light foxing and areas of toning to endpapers. In the dust jacket (corners clipped, but $2.75 price inta…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First Edition. Although Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the m…

dj. [Classic satire/fairy tale] US Book Club edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.118; [2], blank. Bound in publisher's green cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper by Art Brenner. Book-of-the-Month Club 4pp. promo brochure tipped-in (as suggested within), contemporary ink inscription to free endpaper (1947), jacket with some chips and te…

dj. First Edition. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 212. Light green cloth boards with red titles to spine, top edge red. In grey and red pictorial dust-jacket with white text designed by Michael Kennard. Later newspaper article tucked-in. No inscriptions or price-clipping, light wear to crown; a near f…

dj. First Edition. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's green cloth, red titles to spine, top edge red, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. A clean, fine copy in a slightly dusty jacket with one small closed tear. Shows very well indeed. Literary, descriptive and political writi…

First edition, first printing in book form. Publisher's original white textured cloth with dark green titles to the spine, in the Zec designed dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding clean and square, the spine a touch rolled. The contents, toned to the wartime paper stock, are otherwise clean throughout and without…

[Modern Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.109 [1]. With a colour frontispiece over two pages, and 31 in-text line drawings. Elegantly bound in dark red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin green labels, further gilt decoration to spine, and the original publisher's cl…

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…

[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 po…

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 w…

First Edition. [Left Book Club] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxiv, 264. Publisher's orange soft covers, with thirty-two photographic plates, primarily of scenes of social deprivation in mining towns. A well-thumbed copy, with toning and spotting to edges. Moderate general wear to covers, including a 2c…

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…

Typescript comprising two sections: first, three pages of carbon copy with Orwell's autograph pencil side-notes recording sound effects, the name 'Geoffrey' written twice in red crayon; second, twelve roneograph pages with some pencil markings probably in the hand of one of the boy actors [Geoffrey Stevens], 15 pages, folio and…