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Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays -by George Orwell (inc.Nonsense Poetry; A Hanging; How the Poor Die; Reflections on Gandhi; The Common Toad; Books v. Cigarettes; Examination of Gulliver's Travels, etc )
by Orwell, George ( AKA: Eric Arthur Blair )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ ( see Description )/Good (see description)
- Seller
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: London, UK: Secker & Warburg, 1950, 1st edition, 2nd Printing , 1950. -----------( 2nd printing of the 1st edition ) ---hardcover, a tidy copy but there is sunning to the spine and to a slim area of the upper edge of the boards, small ink name on front blank endpaper, some age toning/offset to the front blank endpaper ---in an attractive Good dustjacket which is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, some mall chips, rubbing, some short closed tears, the cover design includes a "snake" of colour down the length of the spine, that design feature should be red to match the colour on the "blob" on the front panel of the jacket, the spine has been sunned and has turned that red "snake" to a creay white, ---212 pages, this contains: Shooting an Elephant; A Hanging; How the Poor Die; Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool; Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels; Politics and the English Language; Reflections on Gandhi; Second Thoughts on james Burnham ( "I Write as I Please"; Confessions of a Book reviewer; Books v. Cigarettes; Good Bad Books; Nonsense Poetry; Riding Down from Bangor; The Sporting Spirit; Decline of the English Murder; Some Thoughts on the Common Toad; A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray ), , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and NOT a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// --sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch ) ---. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+ ( see Description )/Good (see description). Illus. by Michael Kennard Cover Design . 5w x 7.5h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.
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- Bookseller
- Leonard Shoup
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170475
- Title
- Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays -by George Orwell (inc.Nonsense Poetry; A Hanging; How the Poor Die; Reflections on Gandhi; The Common Toad; Books v. Cigarettes; Examination of Gulliver's Travels, etc )
- Author
- Orwell, George ( AKA: Eric Arthur Blair )
- Illustrator
- Michael Kennard Cover Design
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ ( see Description )
- Jacket Condition
- Good (see description)
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- London, UK: Secker & Warburg, 1950, 1st edition, 2nd Printing
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 5w x 7.5h Inches
- Keywords
- Orwell, George ( AKA: Eric Arthur Blair ) , Ryanbook
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Leonard Shoup
Biblio member since 2003
Burlington, Ontario
About Leonard Shoup
We have a complete range of second-hand and out-of-print books, specializing in the topics listed on our home page. We have been full time booksellers for 25+ years.
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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