London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1936. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, near fine copy and rare thus, many pages uncut and unopened. With the first printing of one of Orwell's most important essays, "Shooting and Elephant," plus work by Ralph Bates, Silone, Vassili Grossman, "Alfred: A Cabaret Sketch" by.....
London: The Hogarth Press, 1940. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book about fine, jacket good with substantial abrasion (see pic) to front panel, light wear and soil generally. With "The Leaning Tower" by Woolf, "My Country Right Or Left" by Orwell, and work by Pritchett, Laurie Lee, Julia.....
Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1962. Second edition. Hardcover. 1962, Second Edition in Italian. 234 pp. Hardcover, green cloth. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Bookplate of the former owner (a Roman Catholic priest) on the front pastedown; faint tape shadows on the endpapers; clean text. DJ edgeworn with shallow loss.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. Hardcover. Gray stamped beige cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has toning and foxing to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. DJ has edgewear that includes chips.....
NY: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the New Edition (originally published in 1933). Publisher's dark red cloth in dust jacket, book very good, just a hint of wear to spine ends and corners, jacket also very good, very light edgewear, price-clipped, the.....