Nineteen Eighty-Four
$1,250 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. Very Good. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First Edition with "First Published 1949" to copyright page. Octavo; green cloth with spine stamped in red; red topstain; 312pp. No dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure to spine ends; fading along edges and mottling to front board. Slight lean to boards and binding gives a little but overall holding. Ownership inscription of an Elizabeth Wentworth to preliminaries. According to a previous bookseller, Wentworth's husband worked with Orwell's first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, at the Ministry of Food. Overall still a Very Good first edition of Orwell's ever-relevant dystopian masterpiece.
- Publisher: Secker & Warburg
- Year: 1949
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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