ORWELL, George. Coming Up for Air
ORWELL, George. Coming Up for Air. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1950. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s light blue cloth lettered in dark blue to spine with motif to lower board, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. A near fine book, the cloth a trifle discoloured and faded somewhat at the spine, though the corners sharp, the binding tight and square, the top edge a trifle spotted. The contents within fine throughout. The dust jacket the correct first issue with a price of $3.00 net intact, all four corners neatly cut, with a little shelf wear across most edges and corners, one or two small nicks but a very respectable copy overall.
Orwell’s fourth novel written largely when he was recovering from an injury sustained while fighting in the Spanish Civil War, in around 1938. Resembling Wellsian speculative fiction, the novel essentially considers nature’s demise when confronted with a new breed of tyrant. In a later essay, Orwell says, “retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and – toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable”. A lovely copy, nicer, though considerably more common than the first UK edition published some eleven years earlier by Gollancz.
ORWELL, George. Coming Up for Air. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1950. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s light blue cloth lettered in dark blue to spine with motif to lower board, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. A near fine book, the cloth a trifle discoloured and faded somewhat at the spine, though the corners sharp, the binding tight and square, the top edge a trifle spotted. The contents within fine throughout. The dust jacket the correct first issue with a price of $3.00 net intact, all four corners neatly cut, with a little shelf wear across most edges and corners, one or two small nicks but a very respectable copy overall.
Orwell’s fourth novel written largely when he was recovering from an injury sustained while fighting in the Spanish Civil War, in around 1938. Resembling Wellsian speculative fiction, the novel essentially considers nature’s demise when confronted with a new breed of tyrant. In a later essay, Orwell says, “retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and – toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable”. A lovely copy, nicer, though considerably more common than the first UK edition published some eleven years earlier by Gollancz.
ORWELL, George. Coming Up for Air. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1950. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s light blue cloth lettered in dark blue to spine with motif to lower board, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. A near fine book, the cloth a trifle discoloured and faded somewhat at the spine, though the corners sharp, the binding tight and square, the top edge a trifle spotted. The contents within fine throughout. The dust jacket the correct first issue with a price of $3.00 net intact, all four corners neatly cut, with a little shelf wear across most edges and corners, one or two small nicks but a very respectable copy overall.
Orwell’s fourth novel written largely when he was recovering from an injury sustained while fighting in the Spanish Civil War, in around 1938. Resembling Wellsian speculative fiction, the novel essentially considers nature’s demise when confronted with a new breed of tyrant. In a later essay, Orwell says, “retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and – toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable”. A lovely copy, nicer, though considerably more common than the first UK edition published some eleven years earlier by Gollancz.