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The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume 1 An Age Like This 1920 - 1940; Volume 2 My Country Right or Left 1940 - 1943; Volume 3 As I Please 1943 - 1945 & Volume 4 In Front of Your Nose 1945 - 1950.
by Orwell, George
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Secker and Warburg, 1968., 1968. Hard Cover. First Edition Thus. Octavo, 4 volumes (pp. xxiii, [1], 574; xv, [1], 477, [1]; xv, [1], 435, [1]; xvii, [1], 555, [1]. Frontispiece to each volume. Midnight blue cloth with gilt spine titles, in original publishers' scarlet dust-jackets. Some very slight sunning to spine of unclipped (50s net) dust-jackets and minor foxing to fore-edges. With a printed bookplate of a circular serpent to the ffep. Bright, tight, and free of annotations. Overall Very Good in Very Good. First edition, first impressionof the complete set of Orwell's collected prose from 1920 to his death in 1950. Voted the second most influential British Post-War writer by the Times, Orwell's fictional and essayistic contributions to twentieth century thought are difficult to overestimate. The collection is edited by Orwell's wife, and archivist of the Orwell Archive, Sonia Orwell.
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- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9056
- Title
- The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume 1 An Age Like This 1920 - 1940; Volume 2 My Country Right or Left 1940 - 1943; Volume 3 As I Please 1943 - 1945 & Volume 4 In Front of Your Nose 1945 - 1950.
- Author
- Orwell, George
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Secker and Warburg, 1968.
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Essays
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
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Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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