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George Orwell (Contributes)
细节
The New Savoy
George Orwell (Contributes)
ORWELL, George (Contributes) (1903-1950). The New Savoy. London: The New Savoy Press, [1946].
Very rare first edition, signed by Orwell and other contributors, including Inez Holden, Stevie Smith, Betty Miller and Olivia Manning. This is the first book publication of Orwell's essay, A Hanging, which had first appeared under the name E. Blair in the periodical Adelphi in August 1931. It was printed again in the 1950 collection, Shooting an Elephant. One of Orwell's key works, A Hanging recounts the author's observation of an execution in Burma. In a famous passage, Orwell relates how despite the prisoner's immediate fate he neatly sidesteps a puddle on his way to the gallows, an automatic and intensely human act. Analogous moments pepper Orwell's later writing and are recalled in terms throughout his masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Fenwick, B.26.
Octavo. Original yellow wrappers printed in black (light creases); housed in a quarter black morocco and beige cloth box.
George Orwell (Contributes)
ORWELL, George (Contributes) (1903-1950). The New Savoy. London: The New Savoy Press, [1946].
Very rare first edition, signed by Orwell and other contributors, including Inez Holden, Stevie Smith, Betty Miller and Olivia Manning. This is the first book publication of Orwell's essay, A Hanging, which had first appeared under the name E. Blair in the periodical Adelphi in August 1931. It was printed again in the 1950 collection, Shooting an Elephant. One of Orwell's key works, A Hanging recounts the author's observation of an execution in Burma. In a famous passage, Orwell relates how despite the prisoner's immediate fate he neatly sidesteps a puddle on his way to the gallows, an automatic and intensely human act. Analogous moments pepper Orwell's later writing and are recalled in terms throughout his masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Fenwick, B.26.
Octavo. Original yellow wrappers printed in black (light creases); housed in a quarter black morocco and beige cloth box.
