pseudonym blair eric arthur (14 Ergebnisse)

Soft Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 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, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian - descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices - has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including cold war, Big Brother, thought police, memory hole, newspeak, doublethink, and thoughtcrime. . Covers very lightly worn, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . Signet Classics Series. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 128 pp.

[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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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 intact), with periodic shallow open and closed tears to the edges, and mild foxing to the inside flaps. A volume published shortly after Orwell's untimely death. English critics considered the title sketch to be one of the best short pieces written by Orwell. The first three of these essays were written between 1931 and 1936, and the remainder were written between 1945 and 1949.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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 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.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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 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'.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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 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.

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 inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper that has a couple of short closed tears with associated creasing and mild toning of the spine. Not price-clipped (2s net to the spine and front flap). The first edition was published 19 February 1941 in an edition of 5000 copies, a second printing was required in March. There were no separate American or Canadian editions. (Fenwick A.9a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[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 cloth over boards, titled in silver to upper. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Produced alongside the full-length cartoon film produced by Batchelor and Halas.

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.

[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 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 the 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, in an edition of 25,000 copies. The book was 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 the less common of the two and is considered the more desirable. (Fenwick A12a; Connolly 100). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

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 2cm split to head of spine, general marks to front cover, and some discolouration to spine. Good. Orwell's famous sociological analysis of working class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Northern England prior to the Second World War, commissioned by Victor Gollancz in January 1936. The Left Book Club edition of this title includes a Foreword by Gollancz, intended only for members of the club, in which Gollancz attempts a take down of the whole book as the conflicted outpourings of a middle class socialist.

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.

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 gravitas 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.