Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
£750
Description
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition, 8vo, original pale green cloth, dustwrapper with newspaper review of TV version of 1984 pasted to verso, and typed sheet of paper glued to dustwrapper verso, dustwrapper worn with sellotape repairs to spine and repair to lower wrapper, and somewhat soiled, book with inscription to front endpaper