Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

$75,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

London: Secker Warburg, 1949. An absolutely superlative copy of the first British edition, first printing of Orwell's iconic novel. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with maroon lettering to spine. Trace erased pencil to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, still easily Fine with bright cloth and stamping, vivid topstain, in a Fine unclipped jacket. A towering classic of twentieth century literature that

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