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ORWELL (GEORGE) Nineteen Eighty-Four, FIRST EDITION, Secker & Warburg, 1949 image 1
ORWELL (GEORGE) Nineteen Eighty-Four, FIRST EDITION, Secker & Warburg, 1949 image 2
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ORWELL (GEORGE)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, FIRST EDITION IN DUST-JACKET, Secker & Warburg, 1949

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ORWELL (GEORGE)

Nineteen Eighty-Four, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher's light green cloth, top edge of text block in red (slight fading at head of spine and edges, small stain at foot of lower cover), dust-jacket by Michael Kennard printed in red with white lettering (spine faded and frayed at head and foot, small losses at tips of front flap fold) [Connolly, The Modern Movement 99; Fenwick, A.12a], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1949

Footnotes

FIRST EDITION OF ORWELL'S FINAL NOVEL AND THE BENCHMARK FOR ALL DYSTOPIAN FICTION. The jacket was printed in both red and green variants, with no priority established.

Provenance: Henry Gubler, NY, pencil note inside upper cover. "The Holliday Bookshop... New York" label inside lower cover.

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