ISBN: 9780715620731 - war commentaries (5 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition, large 8vo, 248pp, VG Copy in VG DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

First Edition: Hardback, black bds., gold titles, 160 x 240 mm., 600g., 248 pp., with Index and Appendix, illustrated with 10 maps and map eps., original, photographic, unclipped dw., Fine/Fine copy.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good/Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. This volume contains the lost texts of Orwell's radio commentaries on the Second World War, recently discovered by W. J. West in the BBC archives. They form the first large-scale unpublished work of Orwell's to appear since his early death in 1950. Transmitted weekly - from December 1941, immediately after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, to February 1943 when the tide had finally turned in the Allies' favour - they cover the most critical period of the war. The editor's notes supply all necessary background details, including many facts that were not known to Orwell and his colleages at the time. Orwell's text is given in full; passages deleted by the censor have been restored where legible. Today's readers could hardly have a better, or more vivid, account of this crucial period in human history as seen by contemporaries. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1988 Duckworth & BBC hardback with 248 pages. Dust jacket with light shelf wear and faint water stain to front top edge otherwise lightly used with price unclipped and no inscription. Pages clean with no folds or creases looking little read>Clean, solidly bound, lightly used copy. T1. …