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ORWELL, George (1903-1950). Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.
16° (185 x 125mm). Original pale green cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge dyed red, original dust-jacket printed in green, and original wrap-around band, printed in black (top edge and cloth edges lightly and evenly sun-faded, very light wear to dust-jacket extremities, very light soiling to rear panel and wrap-around band). Provenance: Henrik H. Weisser (book-label to front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, A REMARKABLY FRESH COPY OF ORWELL'S MASTERPIECE, with the rare wrap-around band. Orwell's last novel, published just a year before his death, was an outstanding success, 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, without any priority, one printed in green, the other in red. Burgess p. 46; Fenwick A.12a.
16° (185 x 125mm). Original pale green cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge dyed red, original dust-jacket printed in green, and original wrap-around band, printed in black (top edge and cloth edges lightly and evenly sun-faded, very light wear to dust-jacket extremities, very light soiling to rear panel and wrap-around band). Provenance: Henrik H. Weisser (book-label to front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, A REMARKABLY FRESH COPY OF ORWELL'S MASTERPIECE, with the rare wrap-around band. Orwell's last novel, published just a year before his death, was an outstanding success, 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, without any priority, one printed in green, the other in red. Burgess p. 46; Fenwick A.12a.
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