Nineteen Eighty-Four

by Orwell, George

$12,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with red lettering to spine. Very Good+ with light lean to binding, cloth sunned through dust jacket, former owner name and bookseller ticket to front paste down, pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and edge wear with chipping at the corners and loss to the spine ends. An increasingly difficult first edition to track down in the original dust jacket.

  • Publisher: Secker & Warburg
  • Year: 1949
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Printing: first
  • Binding: unknown

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