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ORWELL, George (1903-1950). Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.
8vo. Original lime green cloth, red-lettered on spine, top edge stained red (spine and covers edges slightly faded, slightly leaned); in unrestored unclipped green dust jacket (a few small chips and tears, light soiling to rear panel).
FIRST EDITION of Orwell's last novel, published just a year before his death, written with "particular feeling and clarity"; "even the political arguments are never dull. In fact they are worked out with passionate logic. 'Double Think', 'Newspeak', 'Big Brother' now form part of the language. It is a warning against totalitarianism under any disguise -- left or right" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 99). Fenwick records two variant states of the dust jacket, one green and one red, with no priority. Fenwick A12a.
8vo. Original lime green cloth, red-lettered on spine, top edge stained red (spine and covers edges slightly faded, slightly leaned); in unrestored unclipped green dust jacket (a few small chips and tears, light soiling to rear panel).
FIRST EDITION of Orwell's last novel, published just a year before his death, written with "particular feeling and clarity"; "even the political arguments are never dull. In fact they are worked out with passionate logic. 'Double Think', 'Newspeak', 'Big Brother' now form part of the language. It is a warning against totalitarianism under any disguise -- left or right" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 99). Fenwick records two variant states of the dust jacket, one green and one red, with no priority. Fenwick A12a.
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ORWELL, George (1903-1950). Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.
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