Book Description

Orwell, George. Nineteen eighty-four. [Rare first edition, first printing with original first printing dustjacket]. London, Secker & Warburg, 1949, 1st ed., 1st mpression, 312 pag., original green cloth lettered in red with dustjacket.
Dealer Notes
= Fenwick A.12a. Listed in Connolly 100. Rare Copy of the first edition with the original first issue dustjacket in the red variant preserved (unclipped).
Dustjacket expertly restored; dustjacket margins and joints with creases. The green cloth has a small touch of fading along the outer edges and only a very slight amount to the spine cloth which is otherwise common with this title. The binding is tight and square.. Owner's entry in ink (dated October 1949) on first free endpaper.
Author Orwell, George
Date 1949
Binding original green cloth lettered in red with dustjacket
Publisher Secker & Warburg
Illustrator n/a
Condition Dustjacket expertly restored; dustjacket margins and joints with creases. The green cloth has a small touch of fading along the outer edges and only a very slight amount to the spine cloth. The binding is tight and square. Owner's entry.
Pages 312 pag.

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