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From the Library of Christian Heuer ORWELL, GEORGE Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker and Warburg, 1949 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, original green cloth lettered in red, top edge red, green dust-jacket by Michael Kennard, some browning, dust-jacket flaps and endpapers with adhesive residue and staining as a result, dust-jacket with some chipping at extremities "I do not believe that the kind of society I described necessarily will arrive, but I believe (allowing of course for the fact that the book is a satire) that something resembling it could arrive" (Orwell, 1949) FIRST EDITION OF ARGUABLY THE GREATEST DYSTOPIAN NOVEL OF MODERN TIMES. "Nineteen Eight-Four depicts, with very great power, the horrors of a well-established totalitarian regime of whatever type. It is important that the western world should be aware of these dangers..." (Bertrand Russell, front flap of dust-jacket) LITERATURE: Fenwick A12a Please see shipping calculator link: click here.

orwell, nineteen eighty-four, 1949

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Works to Benefit The Watermill Center JOSEPH KOSUTH b. 1945 NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (ORWELL) #2 cobalt blue neon mounted directly on the wall Executed in 2018, this work is unique. 7 by 38 5/8 inches (17.8 x 98.1 cm) Please note that this work is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity.

joseph kosuth | nineteen eighty-four (orwell) #2

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ORWELL, GEORGE Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949 8vo, first edition, original green calico-textured cloth on boards, spine lettered in red, red dust-jacket, preserved in card chemise, very slight spotting to a few leaves and cloth, jacket slightly faded on spine, jacket slightly creased and slightly nicked at extremities FIRST EDITION OF ARGUABLY THE GREATEST DYSTOPIAN NOVEL OF MODERN TIMES, now almost incessantly referenced in any debate about the use of technology and algorithms by the surveillance state or trans-global corporations to track, control, or influence citizens across the world. LITERATURE: Fenwick A.12a; Connolly 99 Please see Shipping Calculator Link: Click Here

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8vo (184 x 124mm.), FIRST EDITION, original green cloth lettered in red, top edge red, red dust-jacket by Michael Kennard, neat repairs and slightly faded on spine of jacket, some other slight wear at folds

nineteen eighty-four. london: secker and warburg, 1949

8vo (184 x 124mm.), FIRST EDITION, original green cloth lettered in red, top edge red, green dust-jacket by Michael Kennard, preserved in green cloth folding case and quarter green morocco slipcase, minor offsetting to endpapers, very slight browning, a few tiny tears and some slight creases to jacket

nineteen eighty-four. london: secker & warburg, 1949

8vo, first edition, original green cloth lettered in red, red dust-jacket, publisher's flyer printed in red on both sides loosely inserted ("Stop Press! An important addition to our spring list :-- 1984 a new novel by Orwell which we predict will be the talk of the town..."), jacket slighty nicked at corners, jacket slightly sunned on the spine

nineteen eighty-four. secker & warburg, 1949

8vo, first edition, full maroon morocco signed by Sangorski & Sutckiffe (2005), cover with linear tooling in gilt and palladium depicting a modern city skyline, abstract lettered '1984' tooled in gilt and palladium on spine, patterned endpapers, edges palladium, morocco slipcase 

nineteen eighty-four. a novel. secker & warburg, 1949

L12408

8vo, first American edition, inscribed by Orwell to Osbert Sitwell, original grey cloth, title stamped in red on upper cover surrounded by a torn paper design, spine similarly decorated, dust-jacket, jacket rubbed at extremities, and with one or two nicks

nineteen eighty-four. new york: harcourt, brace and company, 1949

English Literature, History, Children's Books &amp; Illustrations

8vo, first edition, original green cloth, spine lettered in red, green dust-jacket, bookplate, jacket with some rubbing and chipping with slight loss

L11408

8vo, first edition, original light green cloth lettered in red, red and white dust-jacket variant, some slight spotting to endpapers, jacket slightly stained on lower panel, slightly torn at the head of the spine, spine slightly faded

nineteen eighty-four. secker & warburg, 1984

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949 8vo, first edition, signed "Richard Burton / June 1949" on front free end-paper, original light green cloth, red dust-jacket, jacket slightly chipped at corners Richard Burton played the role of O'Brien in the 1984 film adaptation of Orwell's novel. The award-winning film was to be his last screen performance. The red dust-jacket is the rarer version of the two jackets issued with the first edition. Provenance: richard burton's copy

orwell, george. nineteen eighty-four. secker & warburg, 1949

L13404

8vo, first edition, inscribed by the author to Lydia Jackson, original green cloth, remnants of green dust-jacket (lower panel with flap and upper flap) loosely inserted, binding sunned at spine and edges

nineteen eighty-four. secker and warburg, 1949

8vo, FIRST EDITION, original light green cloth, top edge red, green dust-jacket, preserved in green folding case and quarter green morocco slipcase, a few nicks to jacket, A BRIGHT COPY This lot contains 1 item(s).

Fine Books & Manuscripts

8vo (7.5 x 5 1/8 in; 190 x 130 mm). First edition, original green cloth with red lettering on the spine, in the maroon dust-jacket with the usual fading to the spine. Minor soiling to contents, but an overall clean copy. In a quarter morocco clamshell box. 

nineteen eighty-four. london: secker & warburg, 1949

From the Library of Christian Heuer HUXLEY, ALDOUS Brave New World. Chatto & Windus, 1932 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, minor chipping to dust-jacket at extremities FIRST EDITION IN JACKET OF ONE OF THE GREAT DYSTOPIAN NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, in which a massively cloned population is controlled by political bosses through a combination of infant conditioning, drugs and social engineering. Unlike Orwell's later vision of governmental autocracy (in Nineteen Eighty-Four, see lot 131), Huxley's vision was of a population of slaves "who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude" (Huxley, writing to Orwell, see Letters, 604). LITERATURE: Connolly 75 Please see shipping calculator link: click here.

huxley, brave new world, 1932

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Orwell, George Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949 8vo (184 x 124 mm). Fly-leaf, half-title with advertisement of seven other works by Orwell on the verso, title-page, some leaves at end unopened; loss to lower corners of pp. 17-20 and pp. 49-52 not affecting text, closed tear at foot pp. 65/66 affecting text, open marginal tears to p. 298 from where leaves were clumsily opened. Original plain light blue wrappers; crease to front wrapper, edges lightly browned. Housed in a quarter black morocco slipcase with folding chemise. An uncorrected proof of arguably the greatest dystopian novel of modern times. The novel has come to define contemporary discourse around surveillance, and is responsible for the rise of the term "Orwellian." It is now almost incessantly referenced in any debate about the use of technology and algorithms by the surveillance state or trans-global corporations to track, control, or influence citizens across the world. Proof copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four are rare, with only two other copies appearing at auction in the last 30 years. Notably, the title of the book is spelled out on the half-title, whereas it is printed in numerals on the title-page. Harcourt Brace, Orwell's American publisher, were eager to print the book and reluctant to wait for corrected proofs from Secker & Warburg. Orwell complained, "This will mean 2 sets of proofs to correct. ... As there are a lot of neologisms there are bound to be many printers' errors of a stupid kind, & American compositors are very tiresome to deal with as they always think they know better than the author. ... It is most important that there shouldn't be any misprints in a book of this kind" (Fenwick, p.129). REFERENCE: cf. Fenwick A.12a

View 1 of Lot 1101: Orwell, George | A rare uncorrected proof

orwell, george | a rare uncorrected proof

Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker

Aldous, Huxley Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 8vo. Half-title, uncut, "MSU" stamp to front free endpaper. Publisher's yellow cloth, morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; spine and top edge of upper cover a little toned. The signed limited edition, numbered 94 of 324, of this pinnacle of dystopian literature. Brave New World imagines a massively cloned population being controlled through a combination of infant conditioning, drugs and social engineering. Unlike Orwell's later vision of governmental autocracy in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Huxley's vision was of a population of slaves "who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude" (Huxley, writing to Orwell, see Letters, 604). The UK edition was split into signed and trade issues, published simultaneously on 2 February, following publication of the signed issue of the US edition on 21 January, and preceding the US trade issue on 4 February. REFERENCE: Connolly 75; Eschelbach and Shober 10

View 1 of Lot 37: Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World, signed limited edition

huxley, aldous | brave new world, signed limited edition

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Aldous Huxley Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 FIRST EDITION, 8vo, half-title, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, bespoke dark blue morocco and marbled clamshell box, light spotting to prelims, top edge slightly dust-soiled, dust-jacket professionally restored at extremities and folds with some spotting visible on flaps, minor adhesive residue to inside of dust-jacket at head and tail of spine FIRST EDITION IN JACKET OF ONE OF THE GREAT DYSTOPIAN NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, in which a massively cloned population is controlled through a combination of infant conditioning, drugs and social engineering. Unlike Orwell's later vision of governmental autocracy in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Huxley's vision was of a population of slaves "who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude" (Huxley, writing to Orwell, see Letters, 604). LITERATURE: Connolly 75

View 1 of Lot 240: Aldous Huxley | Brave New World, 1932, first edition, dust-jacket

aldous huxley | brave new world, 1932, first edition, dust-jacket

HUXLEY, ALDOUS Brave New World. Chatto & Windus, 1932 8vo, first edition, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, small portions of the jacket expertly restored at head and foot of the spine and at top and base of folds of the flaps FIRST EDITION IN JACKET OF THE OTHER GREAT DYSTOPIAN NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, in which a massively cloned population is controlled by political bosses through a combination of infant conditioning, drugs and social engineering. Unlike Orwell's later vision of governmental autocracy (in Nineteen Eighty-Four, see lot 188), Huxley's vision was of a population of slaves "who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude" (Huxley, writing to Orwell, see Letters, 604). LITERATURE: Connolly 75 PROVENANCE: Francis K. Balfour, armorial bookplate Please see Shipping Calculator Link: Click Here

Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949

orwell, george.

Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949

orwell, george

Orwell, George. Four first editions: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Secker & Warburg, 1949, original cloth, green dust-jacket, jacket slightly chipped and torn; another copy, without jacket; The English People, Collins, 1947, boards, dust-jacket; Shooting an Elephant and other essays, Secker & Warburg, 1950, original cloth, dust-jacket, jacket somewhat worn; 8vo, first editions (4)

orwell, george. four first editions:

Lawrence Durrell (Bitter Lemons, inscribed presentation copy; On Seeming to Presume, multiple copies; Quinx, signed; Justine; Prospero's Cell; a record of Durrell reading Greek Poems, an LP of him reading Love Poems), Paul Claudel, George Barker (The View from a Blind I; The Golden Chains; At Thurgarton Church), Thom Gunn, Siegfried Sassoon, William Plomer, Robert Graves, George Moore (Peronnik the Fool, with engravings by Stephen Gooden, 1933, one of 525 copies signed by author and illustrator), Dorothy Wellesley (Jupiter and the Nun, Hogarth Press, 1932, one of 250 copies signed by the author and inscribed to Adelaide Livingstone; Poems of Ten Years, 1934, similarly inscribed); Aldous Huxley (On the Margin, Edward Sackville West's copy with his ownership signature and bookplate) and others; together with two further copies of Poetry in the Making (1967, one of 100 signed by the contributors including Philip Larkin), volumes in the Poetry Europe series, multiple copies of C. Day Lewis's Christmas Eve illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (in the Ariel Poems new series), The Wood Engravings of Robert Gittings (1959), the facsimile edition of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1971), the facsimile edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), The Liverpool Scene (1967, edited by Edward Lucie-Smith), an envelope of issues of Scottish Journal from the early 1950s, and at least one work inscribed to Stanley Eker (Mischa Damjan's Two Cats in America, illustrated by Ralph Steadman, inscribed by the illustrator with an original drawing on the front endpaper)

collection of approximately 100 volumes, chiefly twentieth century, including works by:

Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949

Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949 8vo, first edition, original light green cloth lettered in red, dust-jacket (red design), jacket chipped at base of spine, slightly nicked and worn at corners

Woolf, V. A Room of One’s Own. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929, number 67 of 492 copies signed by the author, original acetate dust-jacket; Woolf, V. Granite & Rainbow. Hogarth Press, 1958, first edition, dust-jacket, slight browning, owner’s annotations, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities--Orwell, G. The Road to Wigan Pier. Gollancz [for Left Book Club], 1937, first edition, original limp orange cloth; Orwell, G. Nineteen Eighty-Four The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Secker & Warburg, 1984, folio, dust-jacket, slipcase--Forster, E.M. The Hill of Devi. Arnold, 1953, first edition, dust-jacket, price-clipped and soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities--together with five others by or relating to Woolf, six others by Orwell and four others by or relating to Forster; mostly 8vo, original bindings, occasional wear (20)

collection of twenty volumes, comprising:

Nineteen eighty-four. A novel. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949

Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1946) — Nineteen Eighty-four. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1949)

Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1946) — Nineteen Eighty-four. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1949) Together, 2 volumes in 8s (the first, 7 3/8 x 5 in.; 187 x 127 mm — the second, 8 x 5 1/4 in.; 203 x 133 mm). Publisher's cloth; some wear. Original dust jackets; some wear, signature scored through in ink on front cover of second title.

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