1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four
By George Orwell
Located in Bath, GB
The first U.K. edition of George Orwell's important and culture defining dystopian novel, a superb finely bound copy. The first UK. edition, with 'First published 1949' stated to th...
Paper
Set Of Four Bemelman's Bar Ashtrays
By Carlyle
Located in Bridgeport, CT
From the famous Bemelman's Bar at the NYC Carlyle Hotel, unused from old stock. A mural on the walls of the Carlyle Hotel's Bemelmans Bar in New York City, Central Park, is Bemelmans...
Ceramic
Lot of Four Tinsel Christmas Ornaments Vintage German
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A rare collection of four feather tree tinsel ornaments. These ornaments, were made from tinsel and wire, would be a great antique addition for your Christmas, feather tree or sittin...
Wire
$2,238Sale Price|25% Off
H 5.25 in W 3.45 in D 0.39 in
MYLFLAM ENGLAND Dublin 1949 Compendium Lighter Case In .925 Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
A compendium lighter cigarette case made in England. This is a very rare compendium cigarettes and lighter case, created in Dublin England during the post-war back in 1947. The enti...
Sterling Silver
White and Blue Acrylic Connect Four Game
Located in Greenwich, CT
The classic game of Connect Four is reimagined. Crafted out of acrylic and lacquered white, the game features dark and light blue chips that are pleasing to the eye; allowing this pi...
Acrylic
$235
H 2.32 in W 1.32 in D 3 in
1949 Art Deco Ronson "Spartan" Streamline Table Lighter in Chrome & Black Enamel
By Ronson, Louis Vincent Aronson
Located in Red Lion, PA
1949 Ronson “Spartan” Streamline Table Lighter in Chrome & Black Enamel Designed and made in the USA in 1949, this Ronson “Spartan” table lighter is a sleek slice of postwar style. ...
Enamel, Chrome
Antique tennis Racket Press For Four Rackets
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Mahogany Lawn Tennis Racket Press. A very good high quality lawn tennis racket press made with solid wooden front and back plates with three wooden dividers. The press can hold up to...
Mahogany
$4,750 / set
H 7.25 in W 5 in D 1 in
A. A. Milne. The Four Winnie The Pooh Books - ALL IN FINE BINDINGS
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MILNE, A. A. TITLE: When We Were Very Young - Winnie The Pooh - House At Pooh Corner - Now We Are Six. PUBLISHER: London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1960-1. DESCRIPTION: 4 vols....
Leather
Four 18th Century Vellum Covered Latin Books
Located in Hudson, NY
These four books printed in Latin are covered in beautiful old vellum covers and spines. Each book contains text, margin commentary and pictorial illustration to the fronts pages. All but one is from the same library with like beautifully embossed bindings and like blue colored paper borders. These three had at one point clasp binders now gone or in a damaged state. The final book is vellum bound but not in embossed covers and spines. Condition Disclosure: While we do our best to carefully inspect and give a full report on the condition of any item we sell, pointing out any repairs or alterations that may have been done to the best of our knowledge, as is the case with any antique and vintage item, there is a possibility that at some point in the life of the piece that there may have been damaged which has been professionally repaired and as such a repair undetectable, it is therefore impossible for us to disclose... we recommend that you also read and agree to the 1st dibs user agreement...
Paper
Dutch silver table lighter, 1949
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch silver table lighter, 1949 The lighter is a petrol lighter which is equipped with a flint. Top and bottom of chrome metal and the body is surrounded with silver and has a guil...
Silver, Chrome
Alphonse Mucha's Documents Decoratifs (Complete in Four Portfolios)
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
Suite of 72 lithographic plates on wove paper, many in color, plus expository pages (title page, half-title page, preface) and four covers. Published in Paris in 1902 by Librairie Ce...
Paper
Four Cylinder Model Gas Engine by Elmer Wall
Located in Peekskill, NY
Elmer Wall model gas powered engines became popular on a large scale beginning in the 1930s, though he began designing and crafting miniature gas engines for his son as early as 1904...
Metal
1949 Restored A122M Radio by Murphy
Located in Dekalb, IL
c. 1940s/1950s; Murphy Radio Ltd. - Welwyn Garden City, England Vintage English-produced radio by Murphy. Interestingly, this piece features labeled stations within the tuner. • Mo...
Wood
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H 9.38 in W 6.75 in D 2 in
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Book of The Month Club Ed. in Original DJ
By George Orwell
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 1949. Book of the Month Club Edition. In the original publisher’s blue dust jacket and gray cloth boards. Presented with a new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell case. This is an early Book of the Month Club edition of George Orwell's famous dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. First published in June of 1949 by London's Secker and Warburg, this Book of the Month Club edition was published in New York by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. later that year. It is presented here in the publisher’s original blue colored dust jacket and gray cloth boards, with a new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell case. Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society where most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and propaganda. "No other dystopian novel has received the critical acclaim or had the wide-ranging influence that 1984 has" (Books of the Century, 161). Written while Orwell suffered severely from tuberculosis and published shortly before the disease claimed his life, the novel is a work "of hectic, devilish, claustrophobic intensity… nightmarish in the telling" (Clute & Nicholls, 896). Writing of Orwell, Christopher Hitchens...
Leather, Fabric, Paper
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H 8 in W 6.25 in D 1.5 in
Animal Farm by George Orwell, First US Edition, in Original Dust Jacket, 1946
By George Orwell
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1946]. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. In publisher's original first edition dust jacket and black cloth hardcover bo...
Paper
1997-98 The Complete Works of George Orwell
By George Orwell
Located in Bath, GB
A striking complete set of the works of George Orwell, a sought after collection of both his fiction and non-fiction. Complete in twenty volumes. The complete works of George Orwel...
Paper
Animal Farm, George Orwell, first us edition, 1946, hardcover
By George Orwell
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Animal Farm - George Orwell - First US Edition- 1946 - hardcover it's a classic - more important now than ever some water damage to dust cover / some...
Paper
Animal Farm by George Orwell, First American Edition
By George Orwell, Art Brenner
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946. First American edition. First issue dust jacket with mylar cover. Presented in a custom clamshell. This first American edition of Animal Farm features the original 1946 dust jacket designed by Art Brenner. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co. in 1946, this stated first American edition has all the first edition identification points and a new custom quarter-leather clamshell featuring a photo of the author. George Orwell...
Paper
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell, First Edition, 1949
By George Orwell
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-four. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949. First edition - rebound in beautiful quarter leather and housed in a custom matching slipcase. This is a first edition, first printing of George Orwell...
Leather, Paper