The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Complete in Four Volumes: 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 George Orwell - Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, eds
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Phot frontispieces. First paperbound edition in original hardcover text blocks with the 'A' on the copyright page. All of Orwell's important and often-quoted essays and journalism, among then most influential and most cited works of the century, in a four-volume set. Clean, bright and unmarked, without creasing or bumping. Uncommon due to high demand.
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- Title
- The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Complete in Four Volumes: 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
- George Orwell - Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, eds
- Illustrator
- Phot frontispieces
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
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- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- Octavo
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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/ Either way, her dad built a musty little empire with a sexy, funny, brilliant, and hard-to-pronounce name that boasted membership in the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA) and exhibited at Chicago book fairs such as the famed Printer's Row. / The way he puts it:
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/ When he says "our" he means himself, his wife, and his two daughters. It has grown more and more into a family business every year, and now he's nearly ready to hand the reins over to one of his daughters. (Don't worry, the other one's a school teacher.) On Biblio, Alba manages Bibliodisia's inventory and sales under the considerably less sexy, funny, brilliant and hard-to-pronounce business name of Alba's Books.
/ And so another bookseller gets her wings. / The logo's a skyline bookshelf 'cause she's so the big city girl.
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