Nineteen Eighty-four : 1984

Publisher : Harcourt, Brace & Company Year : 1949 Edition : First Printing : First Pages : 314 Condition : Good Binding : Hardcover Dust Jacket : Yes Price : $309.95

Item Description :

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Good condition, ex-libris, some pen underlining and marks in margins of about 20 pages, mainly toward end of book, one page has small tear to fore edge margin, two pages have tiny tears to bottom edges, front free endpaper has been removed, front hinge attached by webbing, bottom cover edges are rubbed, there is tape residue marks on the edges of covers where mylar cover had been taped, faint moisture stain to bottom spine does not penetrate interior. Original scarce blue variation DJ is in new mylar BroDart cover, verso of DJ has been repaired along spine edges with clear tape, some edge chipping and tiny tears. First American edition of Orwell's main work of great importance to modern day society, from the same year as the English first edition. With this book new words and figures of speach of great significance and reference is introduced into modern language; words and phrases such as "Big Brother is watching you", "doublethink" etc. Written as a post war work, this novel has been very influential on the way we understand and relate to politics today, as well as greatly having affected modern literature. 314 pages.

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