orwell george pseudonym of eric arthur blair (25 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good to Fine. Painted & Line Drawn Cover Art! (illustratore). 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" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Quentin Blake Cover. (illustratore). 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. Book.

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

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-304, illustrations, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as ORWELL: THE WAR BROADCASTS (1985). Lower corners bruised, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#42588).

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-304, illustrations, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as ORWELL: THE WAR BROADCASTS (1985). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#161650).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good +. Painted & Line Drawn Cover Art! (illustratore). 54th Edition By Publisher. 128 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." >>Foxing to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Painted & Line Drawn Cover Art! (illustratore). 11th Edition By This 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." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

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 - 7¾" tall. Book.

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-287 [288], cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. A collection of personal reminiscences and memoirs compiled and introduced by Coppard and Crick. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some scuffing to black ink background, mainly rear panel. (#42558).

[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 of jungle hate and lust'. Fenwick, G; George Orwell. A Bibliography.

[NONE] 2014. (hardcover) Fine. xvi, 287pp. 8vo. Boxed, as issued. Bound in blue cloth. Top board illustrated. Frontispiece and nine illustrations. Sturdy black slipcase, showslight wear and scuffs. Dark blue endpapers. Fine copy in near fine slipcase. Introduced by Alan Rusbridger. Illustrated by Jonathan Burton. Pseudonym of . Pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST RALPH STEADMAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first printing. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.[8]; 179; [5]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black to spine and upper, pictorial endpapers. Dust-jacket with printed price of £14.99 to front flap. Profusely illustrated in Steadman's trademark style. Lightly handled. Fine.

First edition with Quentin Blake illustrations, first printing. Original pictorial cloth boards with a wraparound Quentin Blake illustration and gilt titles to the spine. Housed in the original slipcase. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth a little faded at the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The original slipcase is very lightly rubbed at the extremities. An attractive example. The uncommon first printing of the first Quentin Blake illustrated edition of George Orwell's allegorical masterpiece. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[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 tears; very good. With a later Daily Telegraph article tucked in, discussing the origins of the book. Orwell's fairy tale has had a dramatic and lasting effect on popular culture, cementing its status as a work of classic dystopian fiction. Remember: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First Edition. The first American edition. A darkly compassionate satire of capitalism's constraints set in 1930s London. From the library of Emmy Award-winning screenwriter David Lloyd (1934-2009), with his name on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original dark green cloth binding, with silver and light green titles. Mild wear to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is a little rubbed, with a closed tear to the bottom of the front joint and front fold, respectively, and some creasing to the front panel; else very good.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green paper-covered boards, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 17 illustrations in black and white. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's name to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Published in the popular "Britain In Pictures" series. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Politics] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] 127 [3]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth boards with dark green titles to spine. Toned to edges, with a chip from the margin of pp.9/10, otherwise internally clean, presented in an attractive new leather binding. 5000 copies only. Orwell's famous wartime political essay, in which he suggests a new kind of democratic English socialism, and forms the notion of a modern, post-Imperial Britain. Fenwick, G; George Orwell. A Bibliography [A.9a], (1998).

[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 fine copy with the usual sunning to spine. A series of literary essays previously published in periodicals such as 'New Writing', 'Horizon' and 'The Tribune'. Subjects include Tolstoy, Gandhi and 'Gulliver's Travels'.

[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 writing typical of George Orwell. Includes a critique in the works of Henry Miller, articles on Nationalism, Marrakech, the Spanish war and anti-semitism in Britain.

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 silverfish erosion to the edge of the blank front endpaper and tanning to the text block edge otherwise clean. Almost certainly unique. An early adaptation of George Orwell's novel for the stage. We have been unable to find any information pertaining to the author (perhaps a pseudonym?) or evidence of the play in this form ever making it to production. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

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 without inscriptions or stamps. The text block edge is a little toned with a few spots of foxing to the top edge, the purple however remains vivid and without fading. Complete with very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper, that has a couple of small chips with associated creasing to the upper tip of the habitually faded spine. The present example, in entirely original condition, does retain some of its red colour to the spine panel rendering the white titles still legible and is therefore uncommon thus. Not price-clipped (10s net to the lower front flap). Housed in a bespoke grey and black quarter morocco solander case. The first printing of Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on 8th June 1949, the 25,000 copies issued in two colours of dustwrapper, identical in all but the background colour of the upper panel and spine, one being green, the other maroon. Although no precedence has been established, the maroon would appear to be scarcer of the two and is considered the more desirable. (Fenwick A12a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First U.S. edition. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-118 [119-122: blank], black cloth, spine stamped in gold. "ANIMAL FARM, which owes something to Swift and Defoe, is his masterpiece, the best fable in the language with Boxer the cart-horse, the pigs and the donkey becoming household words." - Connolly, The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books. 93. 4500 copies printed. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-276. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 156. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 228-229. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 45-7]. Lower corner tips bruised, some light spots to the upper front cover, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild rubbing, mostly to edges and lower spine, wear with small chips at head of spine panel and 11 mm closed tear at upper front spine fold. (28850).

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. Scarce in this format. (Fenwick A.11b.) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Classic satire/fairy tale] FIRST US edition, advance readers copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 118 [4]. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, stamped 'Review Copy | publication date | Aug.26 1946 price $1.75. Toned to edges, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Covers toned, with heavier browning to spine, but minimal wear. Near fine. Orwell's famous satire in fable form on Soviet totalitarianism and by extension, on all revolutions; a chilling little tale, which produced such arresting phrases as "All men are enemies. All animals are comrades", "Four legs good, two legs bad", "Napoleon is always right" and "some animals are more equal than others.".

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 4to, spindle holes, some slight wear and creasing, marginal fraying at outer leaves, final leaf torn and reinforced; together with an original photograph of Orwell and his school at this time, mounted and labelled. Housed in a purpose made quarter black morocco solander box. Provenance: Geoffrey Stevens; sold Sothebys, London Dec. 15th 1988; Private Collection. This short historical play, which is written partly in blank verse, was composed by the twenty-nine-year-old Eric Blair when he was headmaster at the Hawthorns High School for Boys in Hayes, Middlesex, a small private school having little more than a dozen pupils (as the accompanying photograph shows). It was performed as the school's Christmas play at St Mary's Church Hall in Hayes in 1932. This was in a period when Orwell had finished Down and Out in Paris and London (or Days in London and Paris, as it was originally titled) and was looking for a publisher. He was working on Burmese Days and had only sought the job at Hawthorns because he needed an income. Fed up with his job and his lack of disposable income, he then spent the best part of a term writing and rehearsing a school play for the boys to perform. With dramatic speeches, noisy altercations involving stocks and pikes, unlikely coincidences and some very theatrical dialogue, it is little wonder that Geoffrey Stevens, one of the boys who performed in the play, enjoyed the experience considerably more than Orwell himself, who referred to it in a letter to Eleanor Jacques on 19 October as 'a mucky play the boys are to act later'. By 18 November he could record: 'I have had to write & produce a play- am now in the throes of rehearsing it- & what is worst of all, have had to make most of the suits of armour etc. for the boys to act it. For the last few weeks I have been suffering untold agonies with glue & brown paper etc.' (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, 1968, I, 102-105). Geoffrey Stevens, whose copy this is, remembers the undertaking more fondly: 'The performance lasted only half an hour, but we spent hours in preparation, finding props, constructing the scenery etc., all of which he [Orwell] supervised closely. It was ambitious. He arranged for plywood doors on either side to have saw cuts made in them so that Cromwell's men could break them open with their pikes. It worked perfectly and made a great crashing noise coming down.' (Orwell, The Authorised Biography, Michael Shelden, 1991, p172.) Orwell was seldom pleased with his work and destroyed the majority of his manuscripts. King Charles II, while it lacks some of the literary merits of his published work, has pastiche, humour and a political message. It remains unpublished, and this is the sole known copy. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.