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UNITED STATES: Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2013. Audio Book. Very Good. AudioCD . 10 BRAND NEW AUDIO CDs. NEW in the shrink wrap. Just a bit of shelf wear. Enjoy this New Audio CD edition GIFT QUALITY for your home and library..

New York: The Partisan Review, 1952. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii] 505 - 608. Volume XIX, No. 5. Beige printed card covers. This edition contains 'Such, Such Were The Joys' by George Orwell. This was the first appearance of the piece, an autobiographical essay. Orwell describes part of his youth during The First World War. The magazine was started by The John Reed Club, 1930s as an organ for communist politics. It has evolved by the 50s into a more moderate voice. At some point in the 50s it got funding from the CIA. This edition is one of a few of special note. Other contributors include; Theodore Roethke, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Max Lerner, Melvin Lasky, and Barbara Guest. A well preserved very good copy with some toning along the edges. The first two preliminary pages (advertisements) have toning left from an insert. A collection of articles by a diverse group of writers, including George Orwell.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A graphic novel bringing to life Orwell's dramatic formative experiences

Paperback / softback. New. A graphic novel bringing to life Orwell's dramatic formative experiences

Harcourt, Brace and Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1953. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Green cloth cover has wear to corners and spine caps and a couple of small areas of residue on the back cover but overall in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. A very small damp stain near the top edge of front paste down. Pages are clean and in very good condition. ; 1953; 230 pages .

London: Secker and Warburg, Book Club Associates, 1980. 840 pages. Complete & Unabridged. Publisher's simili leather binding. Fine/good copy... ". Thick in-8°.

Blackstone Audio Inc, 2010. CD-ROM. New. mp3 una edition. 7.25x5.25x0.75 inches.

Paperback. Acceptable.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 230 pages, 8vo. Stated First American Edition. Jacket price clipped. Heavy shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, many large tears and large missing pieces along edges and spine, fading along edges and spine. DJ in mylar. Cloth spine edges are lightly frayed, light tanning along page edges. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in Poor condition..

Harcourt Brace. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth first edition has some soiling and wear to the covers. Unclipped jacket is quite worn with some losses at points and spine ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1953. First American Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good, clean, tight condition. Jacket in mylar cover. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly, and carefully packaged with tracking.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good Dustjacket. First American Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, ownership signature at ffep, gilt toned, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows moderate shelf/edge wear, spine sunned, several small chips and small, closed tears, else bright and clean. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first American edition. The eleven essays brought together in this posthumously published collection range from the autobiographical title piece and "Looking Back on the Spanish War" to his analysis of the motivations of writers ("Why I Write") and a balanced appraisal of Henry Miller ("Inside the Whale"). Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light wear to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is sun faded along the spine, with some very mild rubbing; otherwise very good.

Harcourt Brace & Co., 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with publisher's dated slip laid in. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a 1/4"" horizontal spine chip and a smaller chip to near the top of the jacket foreedge, protected by the Mylar cover, and is otherwise, whole, unclipped, clean and bright.

Harcourt, Brace & Company. DJ in archival cover chips owner name. $3.50 price on the flap. Stated first American edition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1953.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, 1953. First edition, first impression. All the essays in this collection originally appeared in periodicals during Orwell's lifetime, except for the title essay, which was found among the author's papers after his death and first published in Partisan Review in 1952. This is the first appearance of the essay in book form. Such, Such Were the Joys is a long autobiographical account of Orwell's prep school days. The essay "could not be published in his lifetime for fear of libel. Some have taken this to be a literal account of the horrors of an oppressive and socially discriminatory regime, but it is more likely a polemic against private education based on fact and with a reimagined Eric Blair as the observer, hero, or rather anti-hero. However, whether or not he was caned in front of the school for bed-wetting, the school was bad enough" (ODNB). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Small mark to outer edge; occasional spots of… Read More