Down and Out In Paris and London

by Orwell, George

Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933, is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell. It is a story in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is a picaresque account of living on the breadline in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens.

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's mauve cloth with black and purple spine decorations. Very Good with lean to spine, previous owner address stamp to front free endpaper and toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with chipping and several short tears at… Read more about this item
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1933. First American Edition. Young Eric Blair's first book, a work he was sufficiently ashamed of that he asked Victor Gollancz to issue it under a pseudonym. The American edition was published about 6 months following the British, issued in a tiny print run of 1,750 copies, of which 383 were remaindered. The book… Read more about this item
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First printing of the Secker & Warburg edition of 1949. No dust jacket. VG-. Fading to spine and edges of boards. Slight spine slant. Binding is strong. Text block is clean and tight. Previous ownership in ink on the ffep and blind stamped on the half-title page. Text is clean.
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with rubbing to cloth and wear at extremities, slight lean to binding. Glue repair to exposed hinge at title page, erased pencil marking and bookseller label to rear pastedown. Orwell's first published book. … Read more about this item
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth, gilt, wrapped in a clean decorative dust jacket. Interior clean. 9th edition. First volume in The Complete Works of George Orwell. All of Orwell's writings have been altered, but this volume represents a meticulous effort to restore the original story..
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1/1/1961. Hardcover w/DJ. Scarce early edition, published by Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. Dust jacket in protective cover; small vertical tears and chips; price clipped; orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine; endpapers lightly foxed; former owner's name in ink on ffep; binding tight; text clean. G+/G+
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's mauve cloth with black and purple spine decorations; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with boards lightly splayed. Cloth toned, worn and soiled. Pages toned. Orwell's first published novel, a semi-autobiographical work, which, much as the title promises, details hunger and poverty… Read more about this item
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Berkley Medallion, 1961. First Thus 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Mass Market Paperback. 7 x 4 1/4 inches. 2nd printing. 155 pages. VERY FINE. Not read. Binding firm, without stress creasing and square. All corners pointed. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. With slight wear from handling and age toning to interior paper. Not marked… Read more about this item
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George Orwell. Down and Out in Paris and London. 1969 Reprint Edition, Penguin Modern Classics, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England. Used. Softcover. VG Condition. 4 ½ X 7 ¼. 189 pages. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Summary: "Orwell's lively and factual record of his experiences among the poor of two capital cities."
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Penguin, London, 1988. 27th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear. This unusual fictional memoir - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-outs of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants,… Read more about this item
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New York: Avon Book Company. Very Good. Softcover. Avon Red and Gold edition. No date, circa 1950s. Tanning to the pages, and a star stamp to the inside back cover. Modest creasing to the spine. A memoir on the theme of poverty.; Mass Market PB; 188 pages .
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DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON

by Orwell, George

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New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first American edition of the author's first full-length work. Orwell (1903-50) chronicles the time he spent living in poverty in London and Paris, recounting his experiences working casual manual labor jobs and living as a vagabond on the fringes of society. Octavo. Original… Read more about this item
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. reprint. Very Good. small octavo. hardback in original cloth 213pp., Nice copy of the uniform edition in slightly sunned pale green cloth
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