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Coming Up for Air
by ORWELL, George
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good-
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First US Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good/Good-. Arthur Hawkins, Jr. (dust jacket). 8vo. Pp. 278. Pale blue buckram, titles in blue on the spine, illustration in blue on the cover: head edge dust-soiled and lightly foxed, leaf edges slightly age toned, damp stains to board edges, spine color moderately bleached. In the Hawkins illustrated dust jacket with price $3.00 intact on the front flap: spine sunned, creased and damp stained, edges age toned and rubbed, short closed tear at the front head edge. Orwell's 1939 first-person narrative of a middle-aged insurance salesman's nostalgic return to the village of his birth on the eve of war, evoked in Hawkins' illustration. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Synopsis
Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, published before World War II. It is the most culturally English of his novels with alarums of war mingling with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian childhood. The novel is pessimistic - industrialism and capitalism have killed the best of Old England, and there are great, new external threats.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6819
- Title
- Coming Up for Air
- Author
- ORWELL, George
- Illustrator
- Arthur Hawkins, Jr. (dust jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
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- Sunned
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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