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ORWELL (GEORGE)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, first American edition, 1949; and 7 other Orwell First or First American in Dust-jackets (8)

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
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ORWELL (GEORGE)

Nineteen Eighty-Four, first American edition, red dust-jacket (no priority, slightly frayed at spine extremities and corners) [Fenwick A12b], New York, Harcourt, Brace, [1949]; The Lion and the Unicorn, [Fenwick A9a], Secker & Warburg, 1941; Critical Essay, [Fenwick D1a], 1946; Shooting an Elephant, and Other Essays, [Fenwick D3a], 1950; England Your England and Other Essays, [Fenwick D5a], 1953, FIRST EDITIONS, Secker & Warburg; Animal Farm, jacket frayed at edges with small losses including a few letters of publisher name at foot of spine [Fenwick A10d], [1949]; Such, Such Were the Joys, dust-jacket with loss to lower left corner of upper cover, price-clipped [Fenwick D4a], [1953], Harcourt, Brace; Dickens, Dali, & Others, jacket with small loss to lower edge of upper cover [Fenwick D1b], Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946, first American editions, all publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (8)

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