Nineteen Eighty-Four

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First Edition. Fine/Fine. An absolutely superlative copy of the first British edition, first printing of Orwell's iconic novel. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with maroon lettering to spine. Trace erased pencil to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, still easily Fine with bright cloth and stamping, vivid topstain, in a Fine unclipped jacket. A towering classic of twentieth century literature that frustrates collectors, as copies in jacket nearly always turn up rubbed and faded--this example will not frustrate. A once in a lifetime copy, and the nicest we have ever seen by many orders of magnitude. (Inventory #: 140947091)