Nineteen Eighty - Four GEORGE ORWELL First British Edition 1949 1984 1st Print
Item History & Price
George Orwell (1949) ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four‘, UK first edition, first printing, published by Secker & Warburg. In the scarcer original green variant dust jacket. Few have survived the passage of time with the original wrapper.
Condition: Good Plus book in a good plus dust jacket. The cloth boards have mostly retained their original green colour and the spine is colour faded as usual. Internally mostly clean. The red top stain is present, fading closer towards the spine. Light she...lf wear. The razor-thin dust jacket is – as usual – faded on the spine, but has retained some of the red pigments fading towards a brownish colur rather than being completely white as often seen. It is price clipped. Clean dust jacket with a chip to the top of the spine and two smaller chips at the bottom spine as shown. The reverse is clean without spotting.
‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, along ‘Animal Farm’ is Orwell’s masterpiece which has permeated the English language with terms like ‘Big Brother’. Orwell and ‘1984’ do not require any introduction. One of the landmark dystopian novels of the 20th century which has never been out of print and now more popular that ever given the current global political developments.
Condition: Good Plus book in a good plus dust jacket. The cloth boards have mostly retained their original green colour and the spine is colour faded as usual. Internally mostly clean. The red top stain is present, fading closer towards the spine. Light she...lf wear. The razor-thin dust jacket is – as usual – faded on the spine, but has retained some of the red pigments fading towards a brownish colur rather than being completely white as often seen. It is price clipped. Clean dust jacket with a chip to the top of the spine and two smaller chips at the bottom spine as shown. The reverse is clean without spotting.
‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, along ‘Animal Farm’ is Orwell’s masterpiece which has permeated the English language with terms like ‘Big Brother’. Orwell and ‘1984’ do not require any introduction. One of the landmark dystopian novels of the 20th century which has never been out of print and now more popular that ever given the current global political developments.
