ORWELL (George).

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

First U.S. edition. 8vo. Original beige cloth with black and red decoration and lettering, dust jacket. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.

£500.00
ORWELL (George).
Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The first American edition, with the variant red dust jacket.

Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.

A good copy only, dust jacket very worn with substantial loss to head of spine panel and upper portion of front panel

Fenwick A.12b.

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260744