NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

First edition, first printing. Recently bound in burgundy half morocco with five raised bands and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge purple. Publisher's original green cloth spine, lettered in red, bound in at the rear. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

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).