Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four.
£5,250
A Novel
London, Secker & Warburg, 1949.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Green dust-jacket, priced 10s.
A wonderful example of the first edition of Orwell’s dystopian classic, benefiting from some skilful, minor restoration to remove a sticker mark from the jacket spine and improving the corners. Although many worthy experts suggest that the red jacket has historically proved to be the scarcer, it is our experience that the green one has proved equally difficult to acquire in recent years – worth noting that of ten jacketed first editions that appeared at auction in 2025, eight were in the red jacket.
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Bookplate to front pastedown and ink name to front free endpaper; jacket with expert restoration to corners and central section of spine, resulting in an excellent example.
Jacket design by Michael Kennard.
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