Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1984) by ORWELL, George - 1949

Longmans, Green, and Co. London and Bombay. 1902. FIRST EDITION. Colonial Issue. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Tisue guard to the frontispiece. A few of the plates are bound in different places than listed on the contents page but all are present. 4 pages of publishers adverts for the colonial library at the rear of the book. The text and illustrations are fine, clean and bright throughout and look unread. Publishers decorative green cloth which has dark blue illustration to the front board and spine. Gilt lettering to the spine. Decorative light blue and white floral endpapers with ship and swan designs. There are a couple of small closed tears to the spine and the cloth is a bit rubbed and bumped and has a few small marks but is generally in very good condition with the gilt on the spine still quite bright. Previous owner's small typed name label on the plain verso of the front free endpaper, reading H. B. Rattray. This is almost certainly Captain… Read More

México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1970.8º. 292 pp. Encuadernación rústica original. Ejemplar dedicado y firmado por el autor: "A Daniel Flores de su amigo [firma]".Ejemplar no. 3,104 (de 7,000).

México, Ediciones Porrúa, 19168º. 110pp. Encuadernación en tela sobre pasta dura, al interior se conserva el forro rústico original del editor. Interiores a dos tintas, con capitulares en color rojo.Una de las primeras publicaciones de Ediciones Porrúa. Enrique González fue candidato al premio Nobel de literatura en 1949.

John Murray. London. 1927. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). A fine clean copy throughout. Finely bound, by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey and Co, in recent full black morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt wavy lines. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled border. Board edges with single gilt ruled lines. Turn-ins with elaborate floral gilt decoration. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A highly attractive leather binding.

México, Ediciones Era, 1973En 8vo. 146pp; 2h. Encuadernación original en papel. Ex-libris e inscripción (nombre) de propietario anterior en p1. 7 hojas con fotografías intercaladas en el texto sin paginar y algunas ilustraciones en medio de textos. Ejemplar no. 2885/3000.Texto en contraportada: "Como poeta y profundo conocedor de las aventuras artísticas de su tiempo, Octavio Paz ilumina la obra de Marcel Duchamp, revolucionario no sólo en el arte, como lo demuestra su anticipación a muchas de las actuales tendencias, sino también en la relación entre el artista y la vida. Del Gran Vidrio a los ensamblajes, Duchamp mantuvo una actitud distanciada y secreta, una ocultación de la propia obra que sólo ahora recobra toda su significación: silencio que es un lenguaje, falsa inactividad que es crítica e ironía y que, poniendo en crisis la figura misma del artista, del mito del arte, desarregla las nociones adquiridas, abre una riesgosa y deslumbrante zona a la inteligencia creadora, propone un… Read More

First edition, limited issue of 100 numbered copies issued signed by Mandela on the title page. Copy #42. Published to benefit the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Edited with a Preface by Penny Silva. Dark blue full morocco, gilt lettering, satin pagemarker, limitation page. Issued without dustjacket. Cloth-covered slipcase. Slipcase with one corner with slight bump; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition. The first dictionary of South African English, mapping the development and changes of "that variety of English which is particular to South Africa."

Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Printing of the First US Edition. First Printing. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the front pastedown in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, and a short closed edge tear at the head of the spine. A collectible copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck fiction. This volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder"; "The Chrysanthemums," perhaps Steinbeck's most challenging story, both personally and artistically;… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1906. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.2 x 7.7 inches). Illustrated with a colour frontis and forty nine full colour plates, all mounted onto thick art paper pages at back of book, each one with a printed tissue guard. Decorative endpapers with map of Kensington Gardens. A near fine, bright and clean copy throughout in original russet cloth binding with gilt stamped decoration and lettering to front board and spine. Very minor rubbing to hinges and a small bump to the lower front board at the outer corner, but overall a beautiful clean copy of this classic. Among the very best of Rackham's work.

México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1970.8º. 292 pp. Encuadernación rústica original. Ejemplar dedicado y firmado por el autor: "A Daniel Flores de su amigo [firma]".Ejemplar no. 3,104 (de 7,000).

México, Ediciones Porrúa, 19168º. 110pp. Encuadernación en tela sobre pasta dura, al interior se conserva el forro rústico original del editor. Interiores a dos tintas, con capitulares en color rojo.Una de las primeras publicaciones de Ediciones Porrúa. Enrique González fue candidato al premio Nobel de literatura en 1949.