Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949. First Edition. Bound in recent leather binding of half dark black morocco over marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. A fine bright copy, handsomely bound.

The classic dystopian novel, projecting the UK with a Soviet-style government, first published by Secker and Warburg (London) in 1949.

Orwell’s stark prose and prophetic vision have made the novel a timeless warning against authoritarian control and the loss of individual autonomy. When Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ was published three years prior, critics hailed him as a new Jonathan Swift.

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

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