On the 8th February 1946, Orwell told his readers that he owned nearly 900 books. After his death in 1950, his library was distributed between his literary executors – Richard Rees and Sonia Brownell – and his youngest sister, Avril Dunn. Many were later donated to the Orwell Archive in London. Researchers endeavoured to collate but acknowledged it was not always possible to confirm which definitely belonged to the writer. However, if multi-volume sets are listed as one title, his library totalled 523 books. Peter Davison believed that 389 of these were “certainly Orwell’s”. The other books may have been his or were owned by Rees, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, Sonia Brownell or his brother-in-law, Laurence O’Shaughnessy.
The following catalogue is a work in progress; notes and hyperlinks to be added when possible. I have colour coded who inherited which books from Orwell’s library; Richard Rees, Sonia Brownell and Avril Dunn.
A
R. Aldington, Death of a hero, 1937
R. Aldington, Four English portraits, 1801–1851, 1948 [Selected by Orwell for review in The Observer, 1948]
R. Andom, The marvellous adventures of me, n.d.
W. H. Auden, For the time being, 1945
N. Ault, Elizabethan lyrics, 1925 [Eileen O’Shaughnessy]
J. Austen, Lady Susan and The Watsons. n.d.
J. Austen, Love and friendship and other early works, 1922
J. Austen, Mansfield Park, n.d.
B
F. Bacon, Advancement of learning and the New Atlantis, 1929
J. O. F. Ball, Poems, n.d.
A. Barea, The Clash, [Horizon review copy]
M. Bashkirtseff, Journal, 1891
H. W. Bates, The naturalist on the River Amazon, 1914
Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal, édition préfacée et annotée par M. E. Raynaud, Paris, n.d.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Plays. n.d. [Inscribed “Eileen O’Shaughnessy”]
I. de Beausobre, The woman who could not die, 1948
William Beckford, Vathek, London: Greening and Company, 1905. 272pp. Illustrated by W.S. Rogers, with an introduction and notes from Justin Hannaford. [Inscribed E. A. Blair, 1921]
A. Bennett, Clayhanger, n.d.
A. Bennett, Hilda Lessways, 1911
A. Bennett, The old wives’ tale, 1936
A. Bennett, The old wives’ tale, 1939
A. Bennett, Riceman Steps, 1946
M. Berdyaev, The Russian idea, 1948
J.D. Beresford, A candidate for truth, n.d.
G. Bernanos, A diary of my times, trans. P. Morris, 1938
W. H. Beveridge, The Beveridge Report in brief, 1942
R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, 1914 [Avril Blair, Winton House]
R. P. Blackmur, Dirty hands; or The true-born censor, Cambridge, 1930
R. W. Blake, The poetical works, 1925
R. L. Bloy, Pilgrim of the absolute, Introduction from Jacques Maritain, 1947
B.M.A, Secret remedies, what they cost & what they contain. Based on analyses made for the B.M.A. 1909
R. Boldrewood, The squatter’s dream, 1892
F. Borkenau, The Spanish cockpit, 1937
R. Bossuet, Oraisons funèbres, Paris, 1874
J. Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Ed. G. B. Hill, revised L. F. Powell. 4 vol. Oxford, 1934
Major Boulton, Reminiscences of the North-West rebellions, 1886
G. Bourne, Memoirs of a Surrey labourer, 1907
V. W. Brooks, The ordeal of Mark Twain, New York, 1920
V. W. Brooks, The world of Washington Irving, 1944
B. Brown, The Reader’s, 1930
F. Browne, Granny’s wonderful chair, 1940
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, [Eileen O’Shaughnessy]
R. E. Browning, Poems, 1890
O. Browning, Charles XII of Sweden, 1899
R. Browning, Works, 8 vols. 1914. [Inscribed “E. A. Blair, from his Tutor [A. S. F. Gow], Eton, Dec., 1921”]
H. T. Buckle, History of civilisation in England, Vol. 1. 1930
J. Bunyan, Grace abounding, Ed. S. C. Freer. 1903 [Eileen O’Shaughnessy.]
J. Bunyan, Pilgrim’s progress, 1924 [Eileen O’Shaughnessy.]
J. Burnham, The machiavellians, 1943
J. Burnham, The managerial revolution, 1945
C. D. Burns, The first Europe; a study of the establishment of medieval Christendom, 1947
S. Butler, Erewhon, 1935
S. Butler, Erewhon revisited, 1926 [Eileen O’Shaughnessy]
S. Butler, The notebooks of Samuel Butler, 6th imp. 1921
S. Butler, The way of all flesh, 1924 [Signed: Eileen O’Shaughnessy]
H. Butterfield, Napoleon, 1947
Lord Byron, Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington, 1834.
Lord Byron, The poetical works, n.d.
C
R. Campbell, The Georgiad, 1931
R. Campbell, The Georgiad, 1931
N. Carrington, Popular art in Britain, 1945
C. Carswell, The savage pilgrimage, 1932
J. Cary, The horse’s mouth, 1948
C. Caudwell, Illusion and reality, 1946 (1947)
R. Chandler, The little sister, 1949
G. Chaucer, The works, Ed. Skeat, 1920 [Inscribed “Eileen . . . ”]
A. K. Chesterton, The Father Brown stories, 1947
R. Church and M. M. Bozman, Poems of our time: 1900–1942, 1945
J. Collier (ed.), The scandal and credulities of John Aubrey, 1931
V. H. Collins, Ghosts and marvels, 1927
V. H. Collins, A Concise Guide to Decorating, 1946
R. Connolly, The condemned playground, 1945
Jessie Conrad, Joseph Conrad as I knew him, 1926
Joseph Conrad, Almayer’s folly and Tales of unrest, 1947
Joseph Conrad, The arrow of gold. 1947
Joseph Conrad, Chance, n.d.
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1946
Joseph Conrad, The mirror of the sea, 1946
Joseph Conrad, The nigger of the “Narcissus”, 1948
Joseph Conrad, The nigger of the Narcissus, Typhoon and The shadow line, 1945
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, 1947
Joseph Conrad, Notes on life and letters, 1949
Joseph Conrad, The rescue, 1920
Joseph Conrad, The rescue, 1949
Joseph Conrad, The rover, 1923
Joseph Conrad, The secret agent, 1943
Joseph Conrad, The secret agent, 1947
Joseph Conrad, A set of six, 1908
Joseph Conrad, Tales of unrest, 1921
Joseph Conrad, Twixt land and sea, 1947
Joseph Conrad, Under western eyes, 1947
Joseph Conrad, Youth and other stories, n.d.
Joseph Conrad, Youth, Heart of darkness and The end of the tether, 1946
J. Conrad and F. M., Hueffer, Romance. n.d.
G. G. Coulton, Social life in Britain, 1918
G. Crabbe, Selected poems, 1946 [Inscribed “George Orwell, from M. . . Henderson, 1947”]
Sir Edward Creasy, The fifteen decisive battles of the world, 1894
Alexander Cruden, A concordance to the Old and New Testament, 1903
W. Cunningham, The industrial revolution, 1917 [Marjorie Dakin]
Richard Curle, Joseph Conrad; a study, 1914
D
David Daiches, Virginia Woolf, 1945
A. H. Dana, Two years before the mast, 1948
Dante, La divina commedia, 3 vols. Firenze, 1827 [Vol. 2 missing]
Dante, Paradiso, [English and Italian] Trans. L. Binyon, 1943 [Inscribed “C. Lawrence, 1944”]
Dante, The divine comedy, Vols. II & III. 1948
Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle, Ed. and intro. N. Barlow, 1945 [Damaged by damp on Jura]
Charles Darwin, The origin of species, 1901 [popular impression of the corrected copyright]
Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Daniel Defoe, Adelaide Murray, 1823
Daniel Defoe, A journal of the plague year, 1909
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, n.d.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, n.d.
Thomas Dekker, Plays. n.d. [Inscribed “Eileen O’Shaughnessy”]
Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a midget, 1932
Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English opium eater, 1902 (1934)
R. Deutscher, Stalin; a political biography, 1949
C. Dickens, The Works, [5 vols. only] 1890
C. Dickens, [Another 10 vols., to make a complete set; various publishers]
J. Dos Passos, The ground we stand on, 1942
F. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. Trans. C. Garnett. 1912 (1945)
F. Dostoevsky, Crime and punishment. Trans. C. Garnett. 1914 (1945)
F. Dostoevsky, The idiot, Trans. E. M. Martin, 1914 (1929)
F. Dostoevsky, Poor folk, and The gambler, Trans. C. J. Hogarth, 1915 (1944)
F. Dostoevsky, The possessed, Trans. C. Garnett. 2 vols. [Vol. 2 only.] 1931
Arthur Conan Doyle, The return of Sherlock Holmes, 1925
T. Dreiser, An American tragedy, 1926 (1928) [Damaged by damp on Jura]
T. Dreiser, Best short stories, Ed. Howard Fast. 1947
T. Dreiser, Chains, 1928
Theodore Dreiser, The color of a great city, 1930
Theodore Dreiser, Tragic America, 1932
Charles Du Bos, Journal 1924–1925, Paris, 1948
Nicolas Lenglet du Fresnoy, Chronological Tablets exhibiting Every Remarkable Occurrence from the Creation of the World; with characteristic traits of each event, London Vernon & Hood, et al, 1801
G. du Maurier, Trilby, 1895
F. M. Duncan, British shells, 1943
E
Early English lyrics, Ed. E. K. Chambers and F. Sidgwick, 1921 [Inscribed “Eileen . . . 1926”]
G. Eliot, Middlemarch, 2 vols. 1930
G. Eliot, The mill on the floss, n.d.
G. Eliot, Scenes of clerical life, n.d.
T. S. Eliot, After strange gods, 1934
T. S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday, 1930
T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton, 1941
T. S. Eliot, Collected poems, 1909–1935. 1936
T. S. Eliot, Dante, 1939
T. S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages, 1941
T. S. Eliot, East Coker, 1940
T. S. Eliot, The family reunion, 1939
T. S. Eliot, The four quartets, 1944
T. S. Eliot, The idea of a Christian Society, 1939
T. S. Eliot, Murder in the cathedral, 1935
T. S. Eliot, Notes towards the definition of culture, 1948
T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909–1925, 1925
T. S. Eliot, The rock, 1934
T. S. Eliot, The sacred wood, 1920 (1934)
T. S. Eliot, Selected essays, 1932
T. S. Eliot, Sweeney Agonistes, 1932
Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and her German garden, 1901
English comic album, The. [Selected by Orwell for review in The Observer about 20.11.48]
F
J. T. Farrell, The league of frightened Philistines, 1948
J. T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan, 1943
W. Faulkner, Intruder in the dust, [Horizon review copy]
F. Fenelon, Les aventures de Télémaque, Paris, 1787
L. S. Fielden, Began my neighbour, 1943
H. Fielding, The works, 1853
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1948
J. Ford, Plays, n.d. [Inscribed “Eileen O’Shaughnessy”]
E. M. Forster, The longest journey, 1947
J. Forster, The life of Charles Dickens, 2 vols. 1927
M. Fraenkel, Death is a norm. Poems 1927–30, New York, 1936 [Inscribed “To Eric Blair from Michael Fraenkel. September 1936”]
A. France, Les contes de Jacques Tournebroche, Paris, 1921
A. France, The amethyst ring, 1924
J. G. Frazer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament, Abridged. 1923
G
M. K. Gandhi, The story of my experiments with truth, Trans. M. Desai, 1948
M. Geismar, Last of the provincials, 1947
E. Gibbon, The decline and fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols. 1903
A. Gide, Journal des faux-monnayeurs, Paris, 1925
A. Gide, Les caves du Vatican. Paris, 1922
A. Gide, L’école des femmes. Paris, 1929
A. Gide, Les faux-monnayeurs. Paris, 1925
A. Gide, Retour de l’U.R.S.S. Paris, 1936
George Gissing, Charles Dickens, 1926 (1929)
George Gissing, In the year of jubilee, Intro. William Plomer. 1947
George Gissing, A life’s morning, 1947
George Gissing, New Grub Street, Intro. Morley Roberts. New York edn., n.d.
George Gissing, The odd women, n.d.
George Gissing, Private papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1906
Goebbels, The Goebbels diaries, Trans. L. P. Lochner. 1948
Goldoni, Commedie scelte, 1,5,6. Prato, 1826
Oliver Goldsmith, Works. 1827
I. A. Goncharow, Oblomov, Trans. N. Duddington, 1932
G. Grassi, James-Grassi dictionary of the Italian and English languages. 19th ed. 1945
Robert Graves, Good-bye to all that, 1931
Thomas Gray, Poems, 1920 [Inscribed “Hunc librum Erico A. Blair ab Etona discedenti dono dedit Cyrillus Alington Magister Informator. Etonae A.D. MCMXXI”]
G. A. Greene, England made me, 1935
Grahame Greene, The heart of the matter, 1948
Grahame Greene, Nineteen stories, 1947
J. and W. Grimm, Household tales, 1930
H
J. Habberton, Helen’s babies, n.d.
J. B. S. Haldane, Science and everyday life, 1941
Thomas Hardy, The dynasts, 1923
Thomas Hardy, Jude the obscure. 1923
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 1896
B. Harte, Stories, sketches, & bohemian papers, n.d. [Cross against ‘Luck of Roaring Camp,’ ‘Outcast of Poker Flat,’ ‘Miggles,’ ‘Miss,’ ‘Idyll of Red Gulch”]
A B. Harte. Tales, poems, & sketches. n.d. [Tick against ‘How Santa Claus came to Simpson’s Bar.’]
B. Harte Tales, poems and sketches, n.d.
George Herbert. The poetical works. Edinburgh, 1853
Hermann Hesse, In sight of chaos, 1923
T. Heywood Plays, n.d. [Inscribed “Eileen O’Shaughnessy”]
J. A. Hobson, The evolution of modern capitalism; a study of machine production, 1916
A Homer. Odyssey. Trans. E. V. Rieu. 1945
E. Honig, Garcia Lorca, [Selected by Orwell for review in The Observer about 6.9.45]
H. L. Hopkins, The White House papers, 1948
Horizon, [Various copies, to 1950]
H. House, The Dickens world, 1941
A. E. Housman, Last poems
A. E. Housman, The name and nature of poetry, 1933
W. H. Hudson, Green mansions, 1941
R. Hughes, High wind in Jamaica, 1929
T. Hughes, Tom Brown’s schooldays, 1892. [Inscribed “Robert Blair . . . Christmas 1892”]
Peter Hunot, Man about the house, n.d.
Aldous Huxley, Mortal coils, 1922 (1931)
Julian Huxley et al, Science and religion, 1931
J.-K. Huysmans, Là-bas, Paris, 1891
I
H. Ibsen, A Doll’s house and two other plays, 1910 (1912)
N. M. Iovetz-Tereshchenko, Friendship-love in adolescence, 1936. [Inscribed “Eileen, 10.3.36″]
Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet, 1946
J
Henry James, Daisy Miller; A Study, Four meetings, Longstaff’s marriage, and Benvolio. 1883. [Inscribed “Freeman”]
Henry James, Fourteen stories, 1947
Henry James, In the cage, 1898
Henry James, The jolly corner, 1918 [Inscribed “. . . ?, 1936”]
Henry James, The lesson of the master and other stories, 1948
Henry James, The middle years, n.d. [Inscribed “E. M. Cutting”]
Henry James, The outcry, 1911. [Inscribed “Bourne 12/12/11”]
Henry James, The spoils of Poynton, 1897
Henry James, Stories revived, 3 vols. [Vol. 2 only] 1885
Henry James, Ten short stories, Ed. M. Swan. 1948
Henry James, The turn of the screw and The Aspern papers, 1935
Henry James, What Maisie knew, 1947
M. R. James, More ghost stories of an antiquary, 1930
W. James, Selected papers on philosophy, n.d. [Ex libris L. O’Shaughnessy]
R. Jefferies, The story of my heart, 1938
E. Jenkins, Jane Austen, 1948
J. K. Jerome, Observations of Henry, 1901
James Joyce, Haveth childers everywhere, 1931
James Joyce, A portrait of the artist as a young man, 1916 (1946)
James Joyce, Two tales from Shem and Shaun, 1932
James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris, 1925
K
Harry Kemp, Laura Riding, et al, The Left here in literature and life, 1939
S. S. Keyes, The collected poems, 1945
A. W. Kinglake, Eothen, 1920
H. Kingsmill, After puritanism, 1931
H. Kingsmill, The dawn’s delay, 1948
Rudyard Kipling, Captains courageous, 1905
Rudyard Kipling, A choice of Kipling’s verse, Ed. and intro. T. S. Eliot, 1941
Rudyard Kipling, The day’s work, 1898
Rudyard Kipling, Many inventions, 1947
Rudyard Kipling, The seven seas, 1896
Rudyard Kipling, Soldiers three and other stories, 1895
Rudyard Kipling, Something of myself, 1937
Rudyard Kipling, Stalky and Co., 1947
Rudyard Kipling, Traffics and discoveries, 1904
Arthur Koestler, Arrival and departure, 1943
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at noon, 1940 (1947)
Arthur Koestler, Insight and outlook, 1949
Arthur Koestler, Thieves in the night, 1946
V. Kravchenko, I chose freedom, 1947 [Damaged by damp on Jura]
L
E. Lampert, Nicolas Berdyaev and the new middle ages, n.d.
W. S. Landor, Imaginary conversations, n.d.
J. Langdon-Davies, Russia puts the clock back, 1949
J. H. Laski, Communist manifesto: Socialist landmark, 1948
D. H. Lawrence, Assorted articles, 1930
D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan places, 1932
D. H. Lawrence, The white peacock, 1932
S. Leacock, Nonsense novels, 1920 [Avril Blair]
F. R. Leavis, For continuity, Cambridge, 1933
F. R. Leavis, The great tradition, 1948
J. S. Le Fanu, In a glass darkly, 1923
J. Lemprière, A classical dictionary, n.d.
D. Leon, Tolstoy; his life and work, 1944
Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers, 1933
Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth, 1929
Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, 1927
Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 1946
Sinclair Lewis, The prodigal parents, 1938
Jack London, Love of life and other stories, Intro. G. Orwell, 1946
F. L. Lucas, Time and memory, 1929
Earl of Lytton, Antony, 1935 (1947)
M
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Macaulay’s historical essays, n.d.
John Middleton Murry, The free society, 1948 [Inscribed “To G.O. from J.M.M. . . . Feb., 1948”]
N
The Newgate Calendar, Intro. Henry Savage, 1928
J. H. Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1912 (1946)
J. R. Norman, Fishes of Britain’s rivers and lakes, 1943
L. T. Norris, Tongue of beauty, n.d.
Novels of High Society from the Victorian Age, Introduction Anthony Powell, 1947 [Henrietta Temple by B. Disraeli; Guy Livingstone by G. A. Lawrence; Moths, by Ouida]
O
C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards. The meaning of meaning. (5th edn.) 1938
George Orwell, Burmese days, 1934
George Orwell, Burmese days, 1949
George Orwell, A clergyman’s daughter, 1935
George Orwell, Down and out in Paris and London, 1933 [Ida Mabel Blair’s copy]
George Orwell, The English people, 1947
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938 [Ida Mabel Blair’s copy]
George Orwell, Nineteen eighty-four, 1949
George Orwell, The road to Wigan pier, 1937 [dust jacket]
Oxford book of English verse, Ed. A. Quiller-Couch, 1923 [Inscribed “Eileen . . . 1923”]
P
Barry Pain, The Eliza books, 1931
Barry Pain, The octave of Claudius, 1897
T. Paine, The selected works, Ed. Howard Fast, 1948 [Horizon review copy]
Palinurus, The unquiet grave, 1944 (pseudonym of Cyril Connolly)
Eric Partridge, A dictionary of Forces’ slang, 1939–1945, 1948 [Review copy]
The Paston Letters, 1422–1509, 3 vols. Ed. J. Gairdner, 1872–1875
Hesketh Pearson, Dickens, 1949
Hesketh Pearson, The life of Oscar Wilde, 1946
Charles Peguy, Men and saints, Trans. A. and J. Green. 1947
Samuel Pepys, The diary of Samuel Pepys, 2 vols. 1906 (1943)
Thomas Percy, Reliques of ancient English poetry, Vols. I and II. 1926
Francesco Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, 1907
Petronius, The satyricon, n.d.
Philip’s Record Atlas, 13th edn. Ed. G. Goodall, 1947
Ruth Pitter. A mad lady’s garland. 1934 [Inscribed “To Eric from Ruth”]
William Plomer, Notes for poems, 1937 [With annotations claimed to be Orwell’s but possibly those of the original owner, H. E. du Plessis]
Plutarch, Lives. 3 vols. Revised A. H. Clough. n.d.
Edgar Allen Poe, The complete tales and poems, New York, 1938
Tickon Polner, Tolstoy and his wife, Trans. N. Wreden, New York, 1945
K. R. Popper, The open society and its enemies, Vols. I & II, 1945
Paul Potts, A ballad for Britain on May Day, 1945 [Inscribed “To George Orwell, 25.5.45”]
A. Potts, A poet’s testament, 1940
A. Powell, John Aubrey and his friends, 1948
W. H. Prescott, History of the reign of Philip II, Vol. 1, 2 & 3. 1878
Marcel Proust. Remembrance of things past, 12 vols. [Missing vols. 1, 5, 9 & 10] Trans. C. K. S. Moncrieff, 1943–4
Q
Quarterly Review, Vols. V, VI, XI, XV, XVIII, XIX, XXVII, XXVIII, XXXVI, XLVI. (1811–1832)
R
Rabelais, Oeuvres, 2 vols. Paris, n.d.
E. & M. A. Radford, Encyclopaedia of superstitions, 1947
B. Rajan, Monsoon, 1943 [103rd copy of limited edition]
Sir Walter Raleigh, Remains, 1681 [Ex Libris L’O’Shaughnessy]
J. Ramsbottom, Poisonous fungi, 1945
Herbert Read, A coat of many colours: occasional essays, 1945
Charles Reade, It is never too late to mend, n.d.
Charles Reade, Put yourself in his place, n.d.
Restoration plays from Dryden to Farquhar, 1932
H. H. Richardson, Maurice Guest, 1931
Laura Riding, Experts are puzzled, 1930
Arthur Rimbaud, Oeuvres, Paris, 1929
Michael Roberts, The recovery of the West, 1941
Michael Roberts, T. E. Hulme, 1938
Isaac Rosenberg, Collected works, 1937
Bertrand Russell, The history of Western philosophy, 1946
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and logic, and other essays, 1919
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy and politics, 1947
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and logic and other essays, 1949
Bertrand Russell, Roads to freedom, 1916 [Notes, said to be Orwell’s but they may be those of the original owner, Emrys Jones]
Mark Rutherford, The autobiography of Mark Rutherford, n.d.
Mark Rutherford, Last pages from a journal, 1915
Mark Rutherford, Mark Rutherford’s deliverance, 1885
S
Michael Sadleir, Trollope: a commentary, 1945
George Saintsbury, Prefaces and essays, 1933
Saki, Chronicles of Clovis, 1937
Saki, The unbearable Bassington, 1947
J.-P. Sartre, Portrait of the anti-Semite, Trans. E. de Mauny, 1948
J.-P. Sartre, Huis Clos, 1945
R. D. Sartre, D. Rousset, and G. Rosenthal, Entretiens sur la politique, Paris, 1949
Saturday Book, 4th year, 1944 [one of the few to include his censored essay about Salvador Dali, “Benefit of Clergy.”]
Saturday Book, 5th year, 1945
William Shakespeare, The comedies, 1922 [Inscribed “Eileen . . . 1922”]
William Shakespeare, Histories and poems, 1906 (1937)
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s tragedies, 1911 [Inscribed “Eileen, 1920”]
The Shakespeare Apocrypha, Ed. C. F. Tucker Brooke. Oxford, 1908
G. B. Shaw, John Bull’s other island, Major Barbara, 1907
G. B. Shaw, Plays pleasant and unpleasant, 1906
P. B. Shelley, Poetical works, 2 vols. 1907 (1917)
Mrs. Sherwood, The history of the Fairchild family, 1854
J. Shirley, Plays, n.d. [Inscribed “Eileen . . .”]
Shorter novels, Vol. 1, Elizabethan & Jacobean, 1929
Shorter novels of [the] eighteenth century, Rasselas; The Castle of Otranto; Vathek, 1930
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1933
David Shub, Lenin, 1948
Edith Sitwell, Alexander Pope, 1930
Osbert Sitwell, Before the bombardment, 1949
Osbert Sitwell, Dumb animals, 1932
Osbert Sitwell, Left hand, right hand, 4 vols. 1945–1949 [Inscribed in each vol., “To George Orwell from Osbert Sitwell, 1949”]
Osbert Sitwell, A letter to my son, 1944 [Inscribed “For George Orwell, with best wishes, even though he might not agree with all the sentiments, from Osbert Sitwell, August 1944”]
Osbert Sitwell, Triple fugue, 1940
Osbert Sitwell, The true story of Dick Whittington, 1945 [Inscribed “For George Orwell with best wishes from Osbert Sitwell. 26.11.46”]
Sacheverell Sitwell, All summer in a day, 1949
John Skelton, Poems, 1924
Humphrey Slater, The heretics, New York, 1947
William Smith, A classical dictionary of biography, mythology & geography, 1859
Tobias Smollett, Ferdiand Count Fathom. 1905
Tobias Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, n.d.
Georges Sorel, Reflections on violence, 1925
Stephen Spender, Poems, 1938
Stephen Spender, Spiritual exercises, Privately printed, 1943 [Inscribed “To George Orwell, with best wishes for 1944, Stephen Spender”]
Stephen Spender, Trial of a judge, 1938 [Inscribed “To Eric Blair with admiration from Stephen Spender, 5.4.38”]
Arthur Stanley (ed.) The bedside book, 1932 [Eileen O’Shaughnessy]
Enid Starkie, Arthur Rimbaud, 1947
L. Susan Stebbing, Ideals and illusions, 1948 [Horizon review copy]
Gertrude Stein, Three lives, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1933
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 1912 (1938)
Clara G. Stillman, Samuel Butler: a mid-Victorian modern, 1932
Lytton Strachey, Books and characters, 1922 [Inscribed “Madame Revel, 1948”]
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, 1948
August Strindberg, Eight famous plays, 1949
Sir John Suckling, A ballad upon a wedding, 1932
Robert Smith Surtees, Handley Cross, 1903 (1914)
Robert Smith Surtees, Mr. Sponge’s sporting tour, 1949
Robert Smith Surtees, Plain or ringlets? Ask mamma, London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1892 [Inscribed “To George & Sonia, on the occasion of their wedding, with love, Malcolm Muggeridge Oct. 1949”]
Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 1738–1744
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s travels and Selected writings. 1944 [Inscribed “From Paul Potts to George Orwell, 2.8.46”]
Algernon Swinburne, Poems and ballads, 1917 (1924)
J. M. Synge, Plays, poems, and prose, 1941
T
George Tabori, Original sin, 1947
Jeremy Taylor, The rule and exercise of holy living, 12th edition, 1680
Tennyson, Complete works. 1894. [Inscribed “R. C. Blair”]
William Makepeace Thackeray, Works. 10 vols. n.d.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1886 [Southwold carving class]
Michael Angelo Titmarsh, The Paris sketch-book, 1886 pseudonym (pseudonym of William Makepeace Thackeray)
Countess Tolstoy, The final struggle, 1936
Leo Tolstoy, A landed proprietor, The Cossacks, and Sevastopol, Trans. L. Wiener, 1904
Leo Tolstoy, The slavery of our times, Trans. A. Maude, 1948
Leo Tolstoy, War and peace, 3 vols. n.d.
G. M. Trevelyan, An autobiography, 1949
G. M. Trevelyan, England under Queen Anne, Vol. 3: Peace under the Protestant Succession. 1934
G. M., Trevelyan, English social history, 1946
Anthony Trollope, An autobiography, 1924
Anthony Trollope, Cousin Henry, 1929
Anthony Trollope, Framley parsonage, 1939
Anthony Trollope, Last chronicles of Barset, Vols. 1 & 2. 1932
Anthony Trollope, Miss Mackenzie, 1924
Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray, 1924
Anthony Trollope, Tales of all countries, 1931
Anthony Trollope, Vicar of Bullhampton, 1924
Anthony Trollope, The Vicar of Bullhampton, 1924 (1942)
Jan Tschichold, An illustrated history of writing and lettering, 1946
I. Turgenev, Fathers and sons. Trans. C. J. Hogarth. 1921 (1929)
Mark Twain, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1924 (1945)
Mark Twain, The innocents abroad, [1871]
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1914
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U
Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister, 1907
V
Elphège Vacandard, L’inquisition, 1912
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W
Izaak Walton, Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker and Herbert, n.d. [L. O’Shaughnessy]
Evelyn Waugh, Black mischief, 1948
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead revisited, 1945 (1947)
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and fall, 1947
Evelyn Waugh, Put out more flags, 1942 [Inscribed “J. Kimche”]
Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King’s modern Europe, 1947
Evelyn Waugh, Vile bodies, 1947
Evelyn Waugh, Work suspended & other stories, 1948
C. S. Waverley, Works, 1901
Webster and Tourneur, Plays, n.d. [Inscribed “Eileen O’Shaughnessy”]
H. G. Wells, First and last things, 1932
H. G. Wells, Island of Dr. Moreau, 1927
H. G. Wells, Mind at the end of its tether, 1945
H. G. Wells, The new America: The new world, 1935
H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, 1909 [Inscribed “A. P. B. from R. ? February, 1909”]
G. E. Whitehead, Plain vegetable growing, 1941 [Contains slip “With the author’s compliments”]
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Oscar Wilde, The soul of man under socialism, 1948
Oscar Wilde, Stories. n.d.
Angus Wilson, The wrong set and other stories, 1949
Edmund Wilson, Axel’s Castle, New York, 1947
Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station, n.d. [Contained a letter from L. P. Moore to Blair, 15.7.48.]
Edmund Wilson, The triple thinkers, New York, 1948
P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith in the City, 1923
P. G. Wodehouse, Ukridge, 5th printing. n.d.
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George Woodcock, William Godwin, 1946 [Inscribed “To George Orwell from George Woodcock. 16.12.46”]
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William Wycherley, Plays, 1888
J. D. Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson, n.d.
Y
M. S. Yearly, The story of the Bible, n.d.
W. B. Yeats, The collected poems, 1935
Z
I. Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto, 1926
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