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ORWELL, George.

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Stock Code 116593

London, Secker & Warburg, 1949

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Copies of the first impression were issued either in green or dark red dustjackets. To judge from surviving examples, this was done in proportions of about two green to one red, but there is no priority between them. A pleasing copy of one of the century's greatest novels.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, titles to spine red, spine and extremities partially faded through jacket as often, with the unclipped red dustjacket, faded at spine as often, though with a hint of red still visible, extremities nicked with some all too typical rubbing at folds and some mild loss at the head of the spine panel (not affecting lettering), a couple of short closed tears with traces of internal repair, slight creasing to bottom edge of upper panel, but in all a very decent copy.

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