NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with titles in red to the spine, lacking the dustwrapper. Top edge red. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth frayed at the spine tips and toned to the extremities, the red titles however still bright. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription at the top right of the front endpaper and some toning to the text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout.

The first printing of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on 8th June 1949 in an edition of 25,000 copies. (Fenwick A12a; Connolly 100).