Lot 273
  • 273

Orwell, George

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949
  • Paper, Ink
8vo (7.5 x 5 1/8 in; 190 x 130 mm). First edition, original green cloth with red lettering on the spine, in the maroon dust-jacket with the usual fading to the spine. Minor soiling to contents, but an overall clean copy. In a quarter morocco clamshell box. 

Provenance

Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames

Literature

Connolly 110

Catalogue Note

THE FIRST EDITION OF ORWELL'S SEMINAL DYSTOPIAN NOVEL IN ITS ORIGINAL MAROON DUST-JACKET.