Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949. First Edition. 8vo. Bound in recent leather binding of full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled border on boards, top edge gilt. A fine bright copy, handsomely bound.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the classic dystopian novel, projecting the UK with a Soviet-style government.

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, novelist, essayist, critic and outspoken supporter of democratic socialism.

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