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ORWELL, George (1903-1950). Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.
16. Original pale green cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge dyed red; dust designed by Michael Kennard (some wear at ends of spine); belly band, printed in black (a few tears and creases); green morocco slipcase. Provenance: Richard Manney (bookplate; his sale Sotheby's New York, 11 October 1991, lot 246).
THE MANNEY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION 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. Original pale green cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge dyed red; dust designed by Michael Kennard (some wear at ends of spine); belly band, printed in black (a few tears and creases); green morocco slipcase. Provenance: Richard Manney (bookplate; his sale Sotheby's New York, 11 October 1991, lot 246).
THE MANNEY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION 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.