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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty Four 1984. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$9.97 + shipping
Description: Grey cloth boards Book Club edition. Toning and markings to front and rear covers. Extensive, all-over edgewear to cloth of every board edge and corner, including markings and wear to spine. A tight reading copy in overall Fair Only condition.
Seller: Coast Market Books, Mermaid Beach, QLD, Australia
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: For sale is a brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket for the 1st American Edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (also available in the blue variant). No book is included in this listing, however we may have the original book available for sale in our store under a different listing. Please view our other facsimile dust jackets being offered for sale. All jackets come in a brand new brodart mylar protective sleeve. We offer the highest quality and least expensive facsimile (reproduction) dust jackets currently available anywhere. Our jackets are beautifully crafted by a graphic design expert. These dust jackets are offered for research, archival, and preservation purposes. All jackets are labeled as facsimiles on the front or rear flap. Funding to be used for future acquisition and preservation of dust jacket art. Please check back often, as we plan on adding new jackets weekly.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$37.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice copy in early printing. Tan boards with red lettering to title on spine and front or top board. Spine lightly mottled and ends lightly worn. Unmarked, tight and square. Copyriight page does not state later printing but does not state First edition. Bookclub dot on rear board. Textblock supple and clean. His classic novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No jacket. Copyright 1949. Later edition with little black dot. Pages are tanning but clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1949.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 340p, cloth, no DW, indicated first American Edition though has what appears to be a book club dot on the bottom right corner of the back cover, previous owner's name on inside of front cover, VG+
Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1949.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 314p. First book club issue. Contents are unmarked with a slight patina and deckle edges. Binding is tight, hinges are secure. Cloth boards are crisply pointed with lightly bug-eaten spine edge. Lacks a jacket.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: This is a fine, as new, hardcover Harcourt, Brace copy bound with a tan linen spine with black lettering, tan paper boards. In a fine mylar protected DJ with the Orwell Caricature on the rear panel. I can't tell if this is a recent Harcourt Brace printing or a book club edition, or a facsimile. The DJ has no price, the book has no book club mark, the copyright page has no edition or printing info. It is a well printed, like new, obviously unread copy. Photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984): A Novel. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1949.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Uncommon stated 21st printing edition, c1977 but no copyright date beyond 1949 nor mention of Sonia Brownell Orwell listed; assumed library edition. Price of $8.95 NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with moderate wear; internal x-library markings only.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: BCE. Beige cloth over boards, a little tanned on edges and a little on spine. Light discoloration on edge of rear cover. Clean throughout, page edges are a little toned. Lacking DJ.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BCE. Beige cloth over boards, a little tanned on edges and a little on spine. Page edges are toned, Lacking DJ.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1949.
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. some wear. in a worn jacket. book plate inside cover. discoloration from age. Very readable copy.
Seller: Blindpig Books, salt lake city, UT, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1984). Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 314 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Red And Black. The Classic Dystopian Novel Of Modern Times, Prophetic In Its Description Of The Experience Of Modern Man In An Era Of Great Nation States Where Media Penetrate Every Aspect Of Human Experience. Early But Not First American Book Club Edition Without "First American Edition" On Copyright Page, But With Book Club Dot On Rear Cover. Book With Light Wear, No Marks, Some Loss Of Color To Cloth Along Top And Bottom Edges Of Covers. In The Blue Dust Jacket, Which Is Not Price-Clipped ($3.00), "Book Club" Statement, Small Chips At Edges, Tears, And A Little Browning To Spine, No Loss Of Lettering.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book of the Month Club edition. Decorative cloth binding with red and black stampings. Near Fine book with previous owner name on ffep, small book club black dot on rear board, some toning to paste downs in poor dust jacket with taped edges, flaking and a small hole along spine folds, much of the text missing on back cover due to a label removal, $3.00 price intact. All our books are bubble wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box with Delivery Confirmation. NO remainder mark, NOT price clipped, NOT an Ex-Lib. Dust jacket covered in protective clear wrapper.
Seller: William Ross, Jr., Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1949.
Price: US$107.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
ORWELL, George. 1984. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1949.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. 1949. (210 x 145 mm) pp. 314. No DJ. Crisp text block. First Book of the Month Club publication, published the same year as the first edition. Fading to Spine. Overall VERY GOOD condition. MB402
Seller: Mobilis Books, Geneva, FL, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1949.
Price: US$111.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Wear to dust jacket. Some cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding.
Seller: Dewey Books PTMD, Port Tobacco, MD, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1949.
Price: US$119.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early Book club edition Harcourt Brace & Co., 1949. Hardcover in beige gray cloth, 8vo. Light edge wear; previous owner's name tro flyleaf; minor foxing to top-edge, otherwise clean and unmarked; binding solid. Blue dust jacket with mild wear and closed tears to head of spine (no loss). No statement of edition but book has black dot stamped to rear board and 'Book-of-the-Month Selction' to dust jacket. Lovely and solid early printing.
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1949.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 314pp. Gray cloth, red lettering. Black dot on the bottom corner of the rear panel indicating Book-of-the-Month club edition. Light toning to the extremities of the covers and pages, light foxing to the endpapers, The hinges are in excellent condition. Unclipped blue jacket missing half of the spine along wiith random small chips. in mylar sleeve. "George Orwells bleakly dystopian novel about the dangers of totalitarianism, warns against a world governed by propaganda, surveillance, and censorship. Today, Orwellian phrases like Big Brother and doublespeak have become common expressions." Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
George Orwell. 1984. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1949.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early edition, possibly a first, with the BCE dot on the lower back cover. Cover shows minor wear. No dust jacket. Pages clean. Binding tight. Price sticker mark on front endpaper.
Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$148.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover; no dustjacket. States first American Edition. No dot. Some wear, light bumping at the corners and spine extremities. Some age-darkening and staining to the cloth. There are a couple of numbers in marker on the front board. Very slight spine twist. The page edges are age-darkened. Else the pages are VERY slightly age-toned; else clean. ; 29B; 8" x 5-1/4"; 314 pages
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
ORWELL, GEORGE. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. HARCOURT, BRACE & CO., NY, 1949.
Price: US$149.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOK CLUB EDITION, GRAY BOARDS, UNCLIPPED DJ.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1949, 1949.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's name and 1949 on the first endpaper and very short thin crease to the top front edge of both boards.The Book is otherwise Near Fine. The Red jacket with $3.00 price has a 1 inch chip at bottom spine and nicks to edges. Early Reprint
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Orwell 1984 1949 book club Orwell Harcourt brace. Harcourt Brace, 1949.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust-jacket has quite some tears and one of the flaps have gotten loose but is still available in the book. The dust-jacket also has what looks like a coffee stain internally. The book is in really good condition and fresh.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]. Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1949.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages; 1949 Harcourt Brace & Co. HC 1st American edition and printing, stated, and with no mention of Haddon on the copyright nor any deboss or dot on the rear board. Soundly bound but worn in original beige cloth lettered in black and red to cover and spine. Cloth slightly blanched at spine with light fray to cloth at spine ends. Old tape residue and stain where an old jacket protector was anchored to the boards. Vertical linear residue to endpages where jacket was anchored to endpages. Pair of small remnants of an attached paper to rear endpage, very likely a rental library leaf. No marks or ownership indications. Light shelf rubbing and fray to cloth bottom edge and corner tips. Light soiling and toning to page block edges. Binding sound and text clean. Worn and moderately soiled, presumably ex rental library copy. True 1st American edition, with faults and as is. Good only
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
George Orwell. No dot First edition second impression 1984 Orwell 1949. Harcourt Brace, 1949.
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Has some tape left and tapemarks on outer and inner side of boards. Second print without dot but no first american edition stated inside. Good condition inside except the tape-marks on boards and inner-boards
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
George Orwell. 1984 Orwell stated first american 1949. Harcourt & Brace, 1949.
Price: US$232.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In nice condition some small wear and some small stains but still overall very good condition. Has the black dot on back-board.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1949.
Price: US$239.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket, probable facsimile edition, beige cloth and beige boards, 1949 only date listed, no Book Club deboss on rear cover, no original price on jacket, beautiful copy that could easily be rated Fine/Fine, the book has a bit of softness at the spine-ends and no other flaws, the jacket has a tiny area of surface-wear at top of spine and a very faint mark on the front panel that appears to be a label-ghost, all flaws are minor, this copy looks new overall and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, please see our photos;
Seller: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, U. S. A., 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Suspected facsimile edition by Harcourt, Brace and Company. The Copyright page has five lines of information on it, the first two lines being: COPYRIGHT, 1949, by HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. Third and fourth lines: All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. Last line: PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No other info such as EDITION or a PRINT LINE or NAME OF BOOK CLUB, nothing. Book size is: 8 1/4 X 5 1/2 inches. The Boards are beige w/beige qtr. cloth. No title on front cover. Title, Author and Publisher name on Spine in black ink. DJ in burgundy color and has the three blurbs on the back cover with caricature on back by George Holland. No Book Club blind stamp on lower back cover. No price on DJ flap. Mylar cover on DJ. The only defect to the book is the previous owners name embossed on the Half Title page (1 1/2 inch circular embossing " From the Library of.) A beautiful book & DJ with no other defects. Bookseller Invt # C0006 731E.
Seller: Selected Used Books, Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Early edition with price being clipped but one can see corner of a dollar sign. No mention on book club on dust jacket. No dot on back. Grey cloth, blue dust jacket. Very tips of corners show very faint wear. otherwise this book is excellent, very clean and sharp with a tight and square binding. Price-clipped dust jacket (three other corners have also been clipped) has some tiny chips and modest wear to all corners (all corners have been backed with tape at back), modest toning to spine, a few small streaks of yellowing at flaps (but white areas are quite bright). overall quite clean and attractive, now protected in a clear cover. Detailed photos on request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. A Novel. New York:Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:Harcourt, Brace and Company. (1949). Early edition. 314pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Beige boards clean with light wear to edges. Internally, pages clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is in good condition, still in one piece, but worn at all edges and folds including small chips and tears to spine ends. Overall, a very good + copy with a good dust jacket.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library copy. First American Edition, so stated on the copyright page. No book club dot on rear board. This book measures approximately 8" x 5.25" with 314 numbered pages. A brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket is included for protection and display. This book is in fair condition. Spine has heavy chipping, bumping, and open tears. Front hinge is cracked. Tape on spine near rear board. Moderate staining and scratching to the boards. Previous owner's signature on half title page. Original dust jacket flaps affixed to the front endpaper. Library markings on spine and rear endsheets. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by George Orwell. This is Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Description: 1st AMERICAN Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Orwell, George (Pseudonym of Eric Blair). NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. Custom Clamshell Case Only. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949. Unique Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First American Edition, crafted in fine Black NUBA to accommodate either of the books two dustwrappers with both Red & Navy Blue inset panels on either side, gilt-stamped Black Nuba title-piece with bi-color inset on spine panel, finished in smooth Black velour on the interior. A well crafted, elegant protective clamshell for an important book. (book definitely not included). 1st AMERICAN Edition Clamshell Collector's Case.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Description: Nice copy in early printing. Tan boards with red lettering to title on spine and front or top board. Tips pretty sharp. Light spine crimping. Unmarked, tight and square. Copyriight page does not state later printing but does not state First edition. No book clubs blind stamp to rear board. Some wear to boards, mostly along top edge where cloth worn. Textblock supple and clean. In professionally made facsimile jacket in the more preferred jacket. It is much more common in the red jacket. It is without flaw and protected in transparent mylar to protect it for years to come. His classic novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Early book club edition. The book measures approximately 8" x 5.25", with 314 numbered pages This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket in very good condition. Moderate bumping and chipping to both ends of spine. Original 3.00 price on front flap. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by George Orwell. This is Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies, and the ways in which they can be manipulated. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (N8-21).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty Four. Harcourt, Brace, 1949.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unclipped DJ Fair to Poor. See photo. Book itself VG. Text clean. Binding tight.
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
ORWELL George. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1949.
Price: US$278.73 + shipping
Description: Tela editoriale con sovraccoperta originale con mancanze al dorso e strappoal margine alto del piatto. Peraltro interno in Stato di Nuovo.14x21; pp.314. BUONISSIMO STATO , Molto buono (Very Good)
Seller: L'Angolo del Collezionista di B. Pileri, Rignano Flaminio, RM, Italy
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace, 1949.
Price: US$298.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 314pp. Early American edition. Tan boards, red/black lettering on spine and front board, unclipped jacket in mylar sheath. Text is uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, some board edge and cornerwear, foxing on inner boards and textblock edges, sporadic pencil margin marks, moderate+ jacketwear, jacket edgewear, small edgetears and chipping.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$300.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine early reprint. Slight bumping to spine ends. Very minor wear to corners. Stamp to front end paper stating "Property of H.M. Canadian Naval Service". Fair jacket. Price-clipped. General wear. Area of loss to top of front cover adjacent to spine. Areas of loss about spine ends, ends of folds. Glue residue to interior of spine.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: First book club edition with "First American Edition" stated on the copyright page, but with the book club dot present on the lower rear board. The book measures approximately 8" x 5.25", with 314 numbered pages. . This book is in very good minus condition. Some minor staining or spotting on the boards. Minor bumping to the spine ends. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Original book of the month club insert present. Original dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Moderate edgewear to the extremities. Small open tears to spine and flaps. Original $3.00 price present on top corner of front flap. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by George Orwell. This is Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies, and the ways in which they can be manipulated. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: BCE. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, small edge chips, edge wear. $3.00 price on flap,
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated "first American Edition" Tan cloth binding with red and black lettering and decoration. lightly chipped top and bottom dj spine edges. Includes Book-Of-The-Month club pamphlet insert. Nice, solid copy with a respectable dj.
Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
George Orwell. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 314pp; contents clean, tight, unmarked. No ownership name or marks; no library stamps. Minor label residue on front blank endpaper. Tan cloth HC with black and red lettering. Stated FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Seller: JBK Books, North Manchester, IN, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four. HARCOURT BRACE & CO, NY, 1949.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: STATED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION General shelf wear, rubbed extremities, corners worn, lightly age toned pages, light foxing on fore edges. DATE PUBLISHED: 1949 EDITION: 1ST USA ED. 314
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949, 1949.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good Plus copy in a Good jacket. A nice copy of this early printing in a red jacket with $3.00 price.Previous owner's name and 1949 on the first endpaper. The jacket has a 1 inch by 1 inch chip at the bottom spine and a few short closed tears on edges.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$407.05 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Grey cloth hard cover with red titles on front, and both black and gold titles on spine, no significant cover wear, just some creasing at spine ends. Previous owner's signature inside front cover and 314 otherwise clean pages. No dust jacket. Not Book-of-the-Month and no book club markings. This 1st edition 1st issue published in the USA in 1949 is in very good to near fine condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 314pp. This is probably a First Edition, Second Issue, since it is lacking an explicit 'First American Edition' on the copyright page, else all the marks of the First Issue would appear to be present in this copy, except for the red dustwrapper, although evidently it has happened that a First Issue copy with stated 'First American Edition' was married to a blue dustwrapper, exactly like the one on this copy. No editions or printings cited (NAP); "no book club deboss [stamped black dot or blind-stamped dot] at lower corner near spine"; "no mention of the Haddon Craftsmen on the copyright page". Taupe, or uniformly toned light gray boards, with title lettering in crimson [no other lettering or decorative elements], appearing within the outlined torn piece of paper (as repeated on dustwrapper in solid white with upper-case black letters); uniformly, lightly toned endpapers and pages; ten pages were once dog-eared [pp. 5, 19, 29, 35, 41, 53, 77, 79, 305, 311: most 1" to 1 1/2", last listed dog-ear 2 1/2"]. Blue dustwrapper not price-clipped ($3.00) with image of torn upper left portion of a piece of white paper, bearing upper-case title lettering in black print, on the upward slant across the upper middle front cover, below 'A Novel' in white cursive and above 'by George Orwell AUTHOR OF Animal Farm' in white cursive [except for all-caps wording here]; Caricature of Orwell by George Holland on rear cover, aside PR blurbs by Bertrand Russell, V.S. Pritchett and Alfred Kazin. Slight rubbing wear across top edge and corners, book corners and thin line of wear across foot of spine; 1" x 38" piece missing at lower right corner front cover; moderate wear down right front cover edge with 3/8" x 1/8" small oval hole near mid-point (NO corresponding impact on book cloth itself); thin line of wear down left edge rear cover; moderate wear down spine edges (essentially in thin lines, but for 2" of wider wear on left edge adjacent to top of title lettering on spine); white of spine in image background for title lettering in black and white lettering for author name and publisher name at top and bottom spine, respectively, also browned; thin pieces missing across top and bottom spine and at top corners: call this dw Fair, but NOW all flaws are backed with Archival tape and NOW in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives sins. The book is a Classic read, this copy one of character, befitting an artifact more than 70 years old. Secure binding; corners with only tiny curls; NO previous owner names. Unmarked text.
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York City, 1949.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gray cloth covers are mostly clean, with red and black text and illustration. Boards show some staining at shoulder. Upper corner is bumped. See photos. Spine has red and black text and is bright with bumped ends. Binding is strong. Pastedowns and feps have a gift inscription at front. See photos. Interior is gently age-toned, shows a few stray marks. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. See photos. Text block edges have a little dust at head. DJ looks nice behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper. Close examination of DJ shows some edgewear, bumping, chipped corners, closed tear and chip to spine ends, sunning of spine, return corners are clipped. See photos.** PS2024.0327** 314 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches** When Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in June 1949, its jacket read "by George Orwell. Author of Animal Farm." This is the beauty of the first edition -- what it might become is still just a possibility. This book is a very good copy of an early reprint. The dust jacket, with caricature of Orwell by George Holland, bears critical encomiums by the likes of Bertrand Russell and Alfred Kazin. Forty years since its publication, George Orwell's vision of authoritarianism remains fresh.** Early, unspecified reprinting. The gift inscription at the front fep is dated Christmas 1949.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009930"**
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1949.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st American edition and printing, stated on copyright page. (No mention of Haddon on the copyright, no dot on the rear board.) Includes facsimile dust jacket, in mylar. Bound in publisher's tan cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Head of spine has slight fray. 314 pp. Stamp on front paste down, small note on copyright page. Spine lettering slightly faded. Includes related ephemera about the previous owner, Eugene Sekulow, a bibliophile and student of history and politics, with a focus on Germany. Refs: Fenwick A.12b. Connolly 100 1984 was Orwell's most significant novel. Phrases as 'Double Think', 'Newspeak' and 'Big Brother' were coined in the book. The first US edition was printed by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1949, only five days after the U.K. edition. The UK edition first printing ran 26,575 copies, the US edition was 20,000. A wonderful contemporary review by William Soskin, "The disease that has a frenzied world in its grip has been accurately diagnosed. It is the disease of Power-state power and economic power immorally exploited. We know the disease. We do not know the cure. We do not even know the prognosis -whether men will survive or be utterly quelled and defeated. Various writers have attempted to instill in us a dread of the ominous shape of things to come, and they have not succeeded, chiefly because their prognosis has involved time-machines, flights into mechanical and biological fantasies, brave new worlds such as Aldous Huxley's, and erotic ballets of the future such as Robert Graves's recent "Watch the North Wind Rise." They know the symptoms of the disease of Power, these writers, but they somehow have not been able to construct the future in terms close enough to the reality, the fear in our hearts.It is the great realists of literature rather than the satirists and fantasy-spinners, who have had the gift of leading us quietly from what is to what can be. And George Orwell's novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one. Here is a novelist who understands the nature of the beast, the quality of the future to be possessed by Power, and who projects that future not in terms of gadgets or mechanical miracles, not even in terms of such lurid though horribly real machines as the atomic bomb. It is because he creates the totalitarian future in terms of passion and human feeling close to our own that his book has immense stature. Orwell has created a new kind of novel. He has told the story of a comparatively normal fellow, Winston Smith, who is caught in the inexorable machinery of the monolithic state, hounded by the forces of hatred, fear, and cruelty which the new civilization exalts, pursued and beaten into mental and spiritual death. His privacy is dead. In his squalid apartment the telescreen tells him always what to do, how to move and talk and think; what to believe. His every motion may by observed by the Thought Police through this telescreen. Smith works in the Ministry of Truth, falsifying official records and news reports every time the state changes its domestic or foreign policy. Thus history is destroyed and the state controls the past as well as the present and the future. Thus ignorance, an essential condition to the survival of such a state, is exalted. This is an important conception in Orwellâââ‰â¢s drama of the disease of Power run rampant, but is it not close enough to our own statistical and communications systems to contain terrifying meaning for our own way of life?In this world which condemns personality, where the dictatorship has conditioned men and women against love, where food is revolting and language has been altered into something called doublethink, whereby you may believe two contradictory things at once (our party-faithful will understand the need for this!), there is still a spark of surviving individuality in Smith. The novel depicts his heroic search for an underground movement in revolt against the nightmare that is the State. It also tells of the sad course of his attempt to escape the frustrated conception of sex and to carry on a love affair that bears some resemblance to romance, some relation to physical joy.He fails, this individualist, and the gestapo which undoes him and the inquisitors who force his confessions and his final submission make our own police methods and our cardinals' trials seem like child's play. The chapters dealing with this final inquisition easily stand comparison with the inquisitor's scene in "The Brothers Karamazov." The story of official pursuit has all the suspense and melodrama of a super-detective novel, but instead of an exercise in criminal chase we are confronted with the grim pursuit that hangs over the head of every modern man. It is a pursuit that makes us examine our own lives with a new eye. It is a novel that heightens today's problems with the light of their wrong solution. It turns a skeptic's gaze on all forms of regimentation, even though momentarily they may seem to be of social benefit.You look again at your radio and television sets with all their bright possibilities for entertainment and education, and you see with horror the spying eyes and ears they may become in every room of the house in the hands of people who have seized a government for the sake of power and power alone. You look again at your daily newspaper which disseminates facts, or at the reports of statistical bureaus which plot and curve the rise and fall of national income, population, and employment, and you suddenly realize that a newspaper or a statistical bureau in ruthless hands are entries to your brain - another possible instrument for the regimen of slavery.The slogans of the super-Party that governs the state in this story are: WAR IS PEACE and FREEDOM IS SLAVERY and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Other products of a public-relations technique not so different from ou
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty Four 1984. Harcourt Brace, 1949.
Price: US$488.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Grey cloth, early printing with original red jacket, handwritten owner name and date "November 1949", otherwise no markings, jacket has a few small closed tears but no losses and some clear tape inside, the $3.00 price is present on jacket, reviews by Kazin and Pritchett on back, no statement regarding the edition on copyright page, no bce mark on back cover
Seller: Fantastic Book Discoveries, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$493.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First American edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor.Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black and crimson stamping. + 2 leave prospect of the Book-Of-The-Month Club, with portrait of Orwell and text by Henry Seidel Canby.
Seller: Apple Boutique, Drawings, Prints & Books, Geneva, Switzerland
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1949.
Price: US$549.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beige cloth titled in black and maroon. Stated first American edition. Substantial Insecting to cloth and edges; ffep has insecting enough to nearly detach the page; next few pages have less insecting. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is chipped/worn/with interior tape to edges, toned spine, few short tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel.. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Compagny, 1949,, 1949.
Price: US$584.50 + shipping
Description: in-8vo, 314 p., + 2 leave prospect of the Book-Of-The-Month Club, with portrait of Orwell and text by Henry Seidel Canby ?is this what our world is coming to?, orig. cloth with blue dustjacket with inside mention ?Book-of-the-month club selection $3.00, with a printed caricature of Orwell by George Holland on back panel. ".Depicts, with very great power, the horrors of a well-established totalitarian regime. It is important that the Western World should be aware of these dangers." - Bertrand Russell. Unclipped blue dust jacket. some light wear, In all fine copy. This distinguised novel will be remembered as one of the most imporant and moving works of fiction to be published in this generation.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.
Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Fribourg, Switzerland
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1949.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beige cloth titled in black and maroon. Stated first American edition. No book-club dot to rear cover. Slighly toned spine, trace soil to cloth. Points slightly frayed. 3.00 pencilled price to ffep. Slight cant, slight vertical indent to spine. Sound hinges. The red DJ in mylar is split into two pieces with losses to spine ends, sunned spine, worn edges and rubbing to joint. The two parts of the DJ are held in place with clear tape. There are four small browned tape pieces to flaps. Flap price remains at $3.00. The front flap of the DJ has four reviews, apparently later state. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]. Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1949.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages; 1949 Harcourt Brace & Co. HC/DJ 1st American edition and printing, stated and with no mention of Haddon nor any deboss or dot on the rear board. Soundly bound in original blue, black and white dust jacket with publisher's $3.00 issue price intact to front flap. Jacket has been slightly trimmed along the bottom edge with loss of about 1/4 of an inch. Cloth lightly toned and dulled at spine, crimped with trace fray at spine ends and with slight shelf tap top front corner. Light foxing and dust spotting top edge and superficial shelf soil to surfaces. Contents bright and clean with no marks. The jacket is generally bright and clean with just mild toning at spine, a tiny pin head sized hold front edge of the spine panel, and of course the trimmed bottom edge. This 1st edition copy apparently married to a 1st state but trimmed dust jacket from a different copy. Graded down thus G++/G+
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. A Novel Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984. HARCOURT, BRACE, NY, 1949.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: states "first American edition", $3.00 Book of the Month Club Selection on front flap of very unusually thick blue DJ, has small dot to rear lower cover, caricature of Orwell rear DJ by George Holland. FLAP D573 S003 DATE PUBLISHED: 1949 EDITION: 314
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A 1984 Novel. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition, early printing; unstated trade printing. 1949 copyright; no bce impression at back board. Tan full cloth boards, bold red cover and spine titles, slight shelf wear. Pages near fine, bright. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Preserved in facsimile of original first state dust wrapper in dark blue, fine; protected in new clear sleeve. Classic mid-twentieth century wrapper design in bright red with bold black titles. Caricature of Orwell at back panel by George Holland. Rare fine early trade printing in fine facsimile of first state wrapper. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) pseudonymously George Orwell, composed this narrative message in 1948 and juxtaposed the numbers to 1984 as its time and place. The novel was first published in 1949 and he would pass the following January of 1950 at the age of 46. 1984 is the year in which it happened! The world is divided into three great powers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each perpetually at war. Britain is part of Oceania and is known as Airstrip 1. Throughout Oceania, The Party rules through four ministries, whose power is absolute. The Ministry of Peace deals with war, the Ministry of Love, seat of the dreaded Thought Police, handles 'law and order,' the Ministry of Plenty deals in scarcities, and the Ministry of Truth doles out the propaganda. 'New-speak' is the 'modern' perversion of language ordained by the Party. It has installed such remarkable words as double-think (duplicitousness), thought-crime, and sex-crime or 'love' in standard English. In every room, a tele-screen is installed, which can never be switched off, and where 'authorities' spy on every action, word, gesture, and thought. On every hoarding a huge face is displayed - the face of Big Brother! Set within this nightmare is the drama of Winston Smith, possibly the last man alive to rebel against the Party's rule and doctrine, clinging to the belief in the individual and in those precious human feelings and values. With flawless craftsmanship, ingenuity and narrative power Mr. Orwell lays out a terrifying potential future. The love of Winston for the amorous and independent Julia, and the fate that befalls them, stirs the reader's emotions as the cautionary tale paces to a tremendous climax. When Mr. Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published three years prior, critics hailed him as a new Jonathan Swift. The satirical passages in '1984' justify the critics' verdict. But, presented here is much more than satire. Bertrand Russell writes in summary: ".1984 depicts with great power the horrors of a totalitarian regime. It is important the western world is aware of these dangers, and not only in the narrow form of (Communist) Russia. Mr. Orwell contributes to this important purpose with skill and a force of imagination. I hope it will be widely read." Printed in the United States of America. 314 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four, A Novel. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 314 pages. ".Depicts, with very great power, the horrors of a well-established totalitarian regime. It is important that the Western World should be aware of these dangers." - Bertrand Russell. Prior owner's name, dated 1949, neatly in ink at base of front free endpaper else unmarked, moderately worn and lightly soiled. Minimal yellowing to pages. Minor lean to spine. Unclipped blue dust jacket. Dust jacket bears edgewear and some tears at spine ends and corners but remains attractive in clear protective mylar cover. Nice copy.
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Orwell, George. 1984. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition (so stated). A near fine copy in the scarcer red dust wrapper which has slight chipping to the upper spine as well as wear to the jacket hinges. I prefer to be paid via PayPal, username Michael Grano Thank you.
Seller: Michael Grano, Seaside, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated "first American edition" at copyright page and "Printed in the United States of America." True first edition without mention of Haddon Craftsmen at copyright. Tan full cloth boards, bold red cover and spine titles, light shelf wear. Little dried residue from jacket adhesive at edge. Pages near fine, clean. Stylish antiquarian bookplate and printed owner details inside cover: "The Petersons." Pictorial plate depicts knight leading horse through forest. Bind fine; hinges intact. Original first state dust wrapper in blue, moderate edge wear, rub, toning, adhesive residue to edges; unclipped 3.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Flap corners clipped as is the norm for this first edition wrapper. Classic mid-twentieth century wrapper in blue with bold black titles. Caricature of Orwell at back panel by George Holland. Rare near very good first edition in same wrapper. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) utilizing his pseudonym, George Orwell, composed this narrative message in 1948 and juxtaposed the numbers to 1984 as its time and place. The novel was first published in 1949 and he would pass the following January of 1950 at the age of 46. 1984 is the year in which it happened! The world is divided into three great powers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each perpetually at war. Britain is part of Oceania and is known as Airstrip 1. Throughout Oceania, The Party rules through four ministries, whose power is absolute. The Ministry of Peace deals with war, the Ministry of Love, seat of the dreaded Thought Police, handles 'law and order,' the Ministry of Plenty deals in scarcities, and the Ministry of Truth doles out the propaganda. 'New-speak' is the 'modern' perversion of language ordained by the Party. It has installed such remarkable words as double-think (duplicitousness), thought-crime, and sex-crime or 'love' in standard English. In every room, a tele-screen is installed, which can never be switched off, and where 'authorities' spy on every action, word, gesture, and thought. On every hoarding a huge face is displayed - the face of Big Brother! Set within this nightmare is the drama of Winston Smith, possibly the last man alive to rebel against the Party's rule and doctrine, clinging to the belief in the individual and in those precious human feelings and values. With flawless craftsmanship, ingenuity and narrative power Mr. Orwell lays out a terrifying potential future. The love of Winston for the amorous and independent Julia, and the fate that befalls them, stirs the reader's emotions as the cautionary tale paces to a tremendous climax. When Mr. Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published three years prior, critics hailed him as a new Jonathan Swift. The satirical passages in '1984' justify the critics' verdict. But, presented here is much more than satire. Bertrand Russell writes in summary: ".1984 depicts with great power the horrors of a totalitarian regime. It is important the western world is aware of these dangers, and not only in the narrow form of (Communist) Russia. Mr. Orwell contributes to this important purpose with skill and a force of imagination. I hope it will be widely read." 314 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace and Co, New York, 1949.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1949 some stain to bottom of hard cover, really nice dust jacket original price $3.00, no names, no marks, no folded pages, fully intact and strong, never been listed or shown though I've owned it for over 20 years, climate controlled storage with no light or sun fading
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated "first American edition" at copyright page and "Printed in the United States of America." True first edition without mention of Haddon Craftsmen at copyright. Stylish with subtle red, dark blue, tan, and black marbled boards, smooth dark green leather spine wrap with five raised bands and crisp gilt spine titles, light shelf wear. Large spine titles with ex-libris gilt at heel: "Library of Wm. J. Garnett." Slight split to exterior spine edge. Pages near fine, clean; attractive toning. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Preserved in facsimile of original first state dust wrapper in deep red, fine; protected in new clear sleeve. Classic mid-twentieth century wrapper with bold black titles. Caricature of Orwell at back panel by George Holland. Rare sharp, leather-bound first edition in fine facsimile wrapper. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) utilizing his pseudonym, George Orwell, composed this narrative message in 1948 and juxtaposed the numbers to 1984 as its time and place. The novel was first published in 1949 and he would pass the following January of 1950 at the age of 46. 1984 is the year in which it happened! The world is divided into three great powers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each perpetually at war. Britain is part of Oceania and is known as Airstrip 1. Throughout Oceania, The Party rules through four ministries, whose power is absolute. The Ministry of Peace deals with war, the Ministry of Love, seat of the dreaded Thought Police, handles 'law and order,' the Ministry of Plenty deals in scarcities, and the Ministry of Truth doles out the propaganda. 314 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rare advance issue of this monumental title. Stated at cover: "Advance Review Copy" and at copyright: "first American edition." Original tan wraps, maroon cover titles and design, moderate shelf wear; area of coloration over cover titles appears near to hand print in faint red or maroon. Pages very good, clean; no writing. Bind good, moderate cant. An Appendix at back: "Principles of Newspeak." Advance critical acclaim blurbs from Bertrand Russell, V. S. Pritchett, and Alfred Kazin at back cover. This adance proof matches the first edition in most every aspect of lay-out, typeset and design including the emblematic torn scrap of paper labeled "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Appears to be indentical in content to the American first edition. Near very good advance issue of one of the most popular and significant cautionary tales ever penned. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) pseudonymously George Orwell, composed this narrative message in 1948 and juxtaposed the numbers to 1984 as its time and place. The novel was first published in 1949 and he would pass the following January of 1950 at the age of 46. 1984 is the year in which it happened! The world is divided into three great powers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each perpetually at war. Britain is part of Oceania and is known as Airstrip 1. Throughout Oceania, The Party rules through four ministries, whose power is absolute. The Ministry of Peace deals with war, the Ministry of Love, seat of the dreaded Thought Police, handles 'law and order,' the Ministry of Plenty deals in scarcities, and the Ministry of Truth doles out the propaganda. 'New-speak' is the 'modern' perversion of language ordained by the Party. It has installed such remarkable words as double-think (duplicitousness), thought-crime, and sex-crime or 'love' in standard English. In every room, a tele-screen is installed, which can never be switched off, and where 'authorities' spy on every action, word, gesture, and thought. On every hoarding a huge face is displayed - the face of Big Brother! Set within this nightmare is the drama of Winston Smith, possibly the last man alive to rebel against the Party's rule and doctrine, clinging to the belief in the individual and in those precious human feelings and values. With flawless craftsmanship, ingenuity and narrative power Mr. Orwell lays out a terrifying potential future. The love of Winston for the amorous and independent Julia, and the fate that befalls them, stirs the reader's emotions as the cautionary tale paces to a tremendous climax. When Mr. Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published three years prior, critics hailed him as a new Jonathan Swift. The satirical passages in '1984' justify the critics' verdict. But, presented here is much more than satire. 314 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1949.
Price: US$999.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First U.S. edition. Hardcover.This has the original red dust jacket which was issued at same time as with a blue dust jacket with neither taking precedence or importance over the other. Four corners clipped by the publisher, but the price of $3.00 remains present on the front flap. Jacket with quite a bit of wear and tear wear to the extremities and a bit of chipping to the head and foot of the spine. Grey Boards with red blocked "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in black rectangular box. Spine has same red blocked Author, with Title and Publisher in black print. Slight underlining on pages from prior owner. Orwell's classic novel of a totalitarian state and the battle of wills between Big Brother and Winston Smith.Ê
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First American Edition, stated at copyright page with no mention of Hadden Craftsmen. Octavo. 314 pp. Printed dust jacket. Gray calico cloth stamped in red and black. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped at extremities; wear along edges and folds; general scuffing; toning to spine. Boards show mild shelfwear with a few minor smudges. Very slight lean to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better copy in a Very Good dust jacket. [Fenwick A12.b].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, A Novel by.. Harcourt, Brace and Co.: NY, 1949.
Price: US$1092.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.25 x 5.5", beige cloth, 314pp, covers a bit rubbed and darkened, extremities bumped and fraying, ink name of former owner on front fly, pp toned, in an extremity-worn/lightly chipped and torn, spine-sunned dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (red dustjacket with $3.00 price, "first American edition" on copyright page, no book club markings).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Hard-drawn owners bookplate on verso of front fly (in erasable pencil, but pleasing), shallow loss at the crown, very good in very good red dust jacket (there is also a blue variant, with no priority) with light spine toning and several very small nicks and tears. A nice presentable copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1949.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Dustjacket has some edgewear particularly along seams, corners and top and bottom of spine - see image. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. ; Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition - exception to the dustjacket noted. First American edition with price of $3.00 on front dustjacket flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell 1949 - True First American Edition Vintage Hardcover Book with Facsimile Dust Jacket 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" 314 Pages The facsimile jacket is in very good condition with no wear. The jacket is now protected with a removable Mylar cover. The book is in good minus condition free from rips, tears, bends, and writing. There is a store label on the back end page and slight page edge rubbing. A few pages have some small stains. The boards are in fair to good minus condition with minimal wear around the edges and spine, a few spots and edge toning. The binding is tight and square. This is a true First American Edition as indicated by the copyright page and without the BCE point ""Printed by Haddon Craftsman" on the bottom of said page.
Seller: Dara's Library, Wilmette, IL, U.S.A.
ORWELL, George.. Nineteen Eighty-Four.. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1949)., 1949.
Price: US$1315.60 + shipping
Description: Uncorrected proof of the first Canadian edition. From sheets of the first U.S. with a rubber stamp on the title and upper wrapper reading "S.J. Reginald Saunders and Company Limited 84 Wellington St. W Toronto, Ont" and the U.S. imprint blacked out. 8vo., orig. grey wrappers lettered in brown. Spine and perimeter of wrappers discolored (yellowed), small tear in upper cover but in fact a near fine copy of a rare item. Only copy of the Canadian proof that we have seen. Uncorrected proof of the first Canadian edition. From sheets of the first U.S. with a rubber stamp on the title and upper wrapper reading "S.J. Reginald Saunders and Company Limited 84 Wellington St. W Toronto, Ont" and the U.S. imprint blacked out. 8vo., orig. grey wrappers lettered in brown. Spine and perimeter of wrappers discolored (yellowed), small tear in upper cover but in fact a near fine copy of a rare item.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Great find. Uncorrected proof "Advance Review Copy" of one of the best and most famous books of modern times. Book in very good condition.Slipcase fine excellent.Grey wrappers with brown-dark red lettering.Spine has no printing but two handwritten lines "1984" and "ORWELL". Stain about one inch by half inch at bottom right corner front cover. Whatever caused it also made about one sixteenth of inch of that corner disappear.Corners rubbed.Both covers show slight handling. States "first American edition". Shelf 1200 . PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS
Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Red DJ in archival cover, 1cm closed tear, edge wear, corner chip spine slightly sunned. $3.00 price on flap, 314 pages.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo bound in tan cloth. First Edition. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Light rubbing to corners, otherwise bright and clean. Jacket has flap corners clipped, but shows $3.00 price. A few small chips at upper front cover, with a pencil lead tip-sized hole at lower front cover. Small closed tear and a creasing along spine heightwise front and rear, with mild wear at tail and crown. Very attractive volume.
Seller: Mausoleum Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$1503.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st US edition. Very good copy in sharp, very good to near fine blue variant jacket. Ink inscription to free endpaper. DJ price clipped on four corners. Book comes protected in mylar cover.
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, Canada
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace and Co., 1949.
Price: US$1675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First US Edition/First Printing in a first state red jacket; A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. An outstanding copy of this seminal work of 20th Century Literature, a landmark of political and dystopian fiction, and named one of the great novels of the century. This copy is in very good condition with a square, tight binding, bright spine lettering, and clean pages throughout; the book does show some mild rubbing to the board edges, light age-toning to the boards, and some light soiling to the exterior text block and free papers, else near fine or better. Housed in a sharp and bright very good dust jacket that shows some mild rubbing and creasing to the edges, moderate fading to the spine (common for the title), and some light foxing to the flap edges. Overall, a highly presentable and collectible copy of this important work of 20th Century Literature; Not remaindered, not price clipped ($3.00 intact), not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Advance review copy of the first American edition. Bound in publisher's original wraps printed in brown. Near Fine with toning, light soiling and light creasing to wraps, small loss to top and bottom corners of the spine near the front joint, pages toned. A rare format of one of Orwell's best-known works.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Co (1949), New York, 1949.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, in first issue red dustjacket. Orwell's classic work of dystopian fiction. Basis for the 1956 Michael Anderson directed film starring Edmond O'Brien and Michael Redgrave. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, with light edge wear, and faded spine.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1949.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, in first issue red dustjacket. Orwell's classic work of dystopian fiction. Basis for the 1956 Michael Anderson directed film starring Edmond O'Brien and Michael Redgrave. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, with light edge wear, and faded spine.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1795.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated "first American edition" at copyright page and "Printed in the United States of America." True first edition without mention of Haddon Craftsmen at copyright. Tan full cloth boards, bold red cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub, bump. Pages near fine, clean. Small antiquarian stamp inside cover, half-title, and back pastedown: "Carl J. Bokmuller." Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Original first state dust wrapper in red, moderate edge wear, rub, toning; unclipped 3.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Flap corners clipped. Classic mid-twentieth century wrapper in bright red with bold black titles. Caricature of Orwell at back panel by George Holland. Rare near very good first edition in same first state wrapper. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) utilizing his pseudonym, George Orwell, composed this narrative message in 1948 and juxtaposed the numbers to 1984 as its time and place. The novel was first published in 1949 and he would pass the following January of 1950 at the age of 46. 1984 is the year in which it happened! The world is divided into three great powers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each perpetually at war. Britain is part of Oceania and is known as Airstrip 1. Throughout Oceania, The Party rules through four ministries, whose power is absolute. The Ministry of Peace deals with war, the Ministry of Love, seat of the dreaded Thought Police, handles 'law and order,' the Ministry of Plenty deals in scarcities, and the Ministry of Truth doles out the propaganda. 'New-speak' is the 'modern' perversion of language ordained by the Party. It has installed such remarkable words as double-think (duplicitousness), thought-crime, and sex-crime or 'love' in standard English. In every room, a tele-screen is installed, which can never be switched off, and where 'authorities' spy on every action, word, gesture, and thought. On every hoarding a huge face is displayed - the face of Big Brother! Set within this nightmare is the drama of Winston Smith, possibly the last man alive to rebel against the Party's rule and doctrine, clinging to the belief in the individual and in those precious human feelings and values. With flawless craftsmanship, ingenuity and narrative power Mr. Orwell lays out a terrifying potential future. The love of Winston for the amorous and independent Julia, and the fate that befalls them, stirs the reader's emotions as the cautionary tale paces to a tremendous climax. When Mr. Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published three years prior, critics hailed him as a new Jonathan Swift. The satirical passages in '1984' justify the critics' verdict. But, presented here is much more than satire. Bertrand Russell writes in summary: ".1984 depicts with great power the horrors of a totalitarian regime. It is important the western world is aware of these dangers, and not only in the narrow form of (Communist) Russia. Mr. Orwell contributes to this important purpose with skill and a force of imagination. I hope it will be widely read." 314 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-four. Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1949.
Price: US$1900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, as stated on copyright page. Book near fine. Dust jacket very good. In front is a review of the book attached by the Buffalo Evening News.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1949.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, later printing, in dust-jacket with $3.00 price. [4], 314 pp. 8vo. Connolly 100, 99 Gray cloth with some soiling along bottom edge and around foot of spine, tape residue where dust jacket was held down; blue dust-jacket with chipping along head of spine and tape residue on inside flaps; previous owner bookplate and residue of a library plate on rfep First American edition, later printing, in dust-jacket with $3.00 price.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of Orwell's classic dystopian novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional example. Written while Orwell suffered severely from tuberculosis and published shortly before the disease claimed his life, the novel is a work âof hectic, devilish, claustrophobic intensity⦠nightmarish in the tellingâ (Clute & Nicholls, 896). In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Named as one of Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century. âIt is quite simply a novel which has changed the worldâ (Pringle, 100 Best Science Fiction Novels 1). Fenwick A12a. Connolly 99. Anatomy of Wonder II:838. 100 Most Influential Books 93.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1949.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition ( stated ) published by Harcourt Brace and Company in 1949. Bound in publisher's beige cloth, lettered in red and black. Dust jacket priced at $3.00, no book club indentation or dot to rear board. No mention of Haddon Craftsmen to copyright page.The book is near fine, other than a prior owner's signature to front end paper and a trace of glue browning to the rear gutter. Dust jacket near fine, with a trace of rubbing to the folds and the spinal extremities. Spine just a shade toned. A very handsome copy, with red to the dust jacket particularly vibrant and free of wear.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1949.
Price: US$2700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition, published only five days after the British edition. First printing. A fine copy, appearing unread. The slightest edge wear to the cloth at the head and foot of the spine, but otherwise a flawless copy. In the first state dust jacket, unclipped with $3.00 on the front flap. The corners with the publishers decorative clips. The jacket very good + to near fine, only with a little scuff to the front panel. Some tanning to the spine, with very slight chipping at the crown and foot. An uncommonly bright example still. The last book of Orwells life, it would be considered his masterpiece - the great dystopian novel.
Seller: Canton Books, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
George Orwell. True first american edition Orwell 1984 1949 superb condition. Harcourt Brace, 1949.
Price: US$2700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: True first print without black dot. First american stated. Doesnt mention book club and price 3.00. The first print. The book and dust-jacket are both in truly superb condition. The unrestored dust-jacket has some minor wear as seen in photos. It holds together very well and is tight. It is not restored. Exceptional condition. The red colour is very vibrant.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
Price: US$2950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first American edition at copyright page. True first edition without additional lines at copyright page. Tan full cloth boards, bold red cover and spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages near fine, clean. Antiquarian signature inside cover: "7/5/49, Jean H. Youngren, 2602 Hartzell St." Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Original first state dust wrapper in red, moderate shelf wear, toning; unclipped 3.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Classic mid-twentieth century wrapper in bright red with bold black titles. Caricature of Orwell at back panel by George Holland. Rare near fine first edition in very good first state wrapper. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) utilizing his pseudonym, George Orwell, composed this narrative message in 1948 and juxtaposed the numbers to 1984 as its time and place. The novel was first published in 1949 and he would pass the following January of 1950 at the age of 46. 1984 is the year in which it happened! The world is divided into three great powers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each perpetually at war. Britain is part of Oceania and is known as Airstrip 1. Throughout Oceania, The Party rules through four ministries, whose power is absolute. The Ministry of Peace deals with war, the Ministry of Love, seat of the dreaded Thought Police, handles 'law and order,' the Ministry of Plenty deals in scarcities, and the Ministry of Truth doles out the propaganda. 'New-speak' is the 'modern' perversion of language ordained by the Party. It has installed such remarkable words as double-think (duplicitousness), thought-crime, and sex-crime or 'love' in standard English. In every room, a tele-screen is installed, which can never be switched off, and where 'authorities' spy on every action, word, gesture, and thought. On every hoarding a huge face is displayed - the face of Big Brother! Set within this nightmare is the drama of Winston Smith, possibly the last man alive to rebel against the Party's rule and doctrine, clinging to the belief in the individual and in those precious human feelings and values. With flawless craftsmanship, ingenuity and narrative power Mr. Orwell lays out a terrifying potential future. The love of Winston for the amorous and independent Julia, and the fate that befalls them, stirs the reader's emotions as the cautionary tale paces to a tremendous climax. When Mr. Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published three years prior, critics hailed him as a new Jonathan Swift. The satirical passages in '1984' justify the critics' verdict. But, presented here is much more than satire. Bertrand Russell writes in summary: ".1984 depicts with great power the horrors of a totalitarian regime. It is important the western world is aware of these dangers, and not only in the narrow form of (Communist) Russia. Mr. Orwell contributes to this important purpose with skill and a force of imagination. I hope it will be widely read." Printed in the United States of America. 314 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated at copyright page: "first American edition". Tan full cloth boards, bold red cover and spine titles, light shelf wear, clean. Pages near fine, clean; no writing Bind fine, slight cant; hinges intact. Original first edition dust wrapper, moderate shelf wear; unclipped 3.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Classic mid-twentieth century wrapper in bright blue with bold black titles. Caricature of Orwell at back panel by George Holland. Rare near fine first edition in very good original wrapper. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) utilizing his pseudonym, George Orwell, composed this narrative message in 1948 and juxtaposed the numbers to 1984 as its time and place. The novel was first published in 1949 and he would pass the following January of 1950 at the age of 46. 1984 is the year in which it happened! The world is divided into three great powers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each perpetually at war. Britain is part of Oceania and is known as Airstrip 1. Throughout Oceania, The Party rules through four ministries, whose power is absolute. The Ministry of Peace deals with war, the Ministry of Love, seat of the dreaded Thought Police, handles 'law and order,' the Ministry of Plenty deals in scarcities, and the Ministry of Truth doles out the propaganda. 'New-speak' is the 'modern' perversion of language ordained by the Party. It has installed such remarkable words as double-think (duplicitousness), thought-crime, and sex-crime or 'love' in standard English. In every room, a tele-screen is installed, which can never be switched off, and where 'authorities' spy on every action, word, gesture, and thought. On every hoarding a huge face is displayed - the face of Big Brother! Set within this nightmare is the drama of Winston Smith, possibly the last man alive to rebel against the Party's rule and doctrine, clinging to the belief in the individual and in those precious human feelings and values. With flawless craftsmanship, ingenuity and narrative power Mr. Orwell lays out a terrifying potential future. The love of Winston for the amorous and independent Julia, and the fate that befalls them, stirs the reader's emotions as the cautionary tale paces to a tremendous climax. When Mr. Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published three years prior, critics hailed him as a new Jonathan Swift. The satirical passages in '1984' justify the critics' verdict. But, presented here is much more than satire. Printed in the United States of America. 314 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR 1984. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1949.
Price: US$3217.00 + shipping
Description: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, Harcourt Brace, 1949, first American edition, a bit of tanning to the dust-wrapper spine, else fine in like bright dust-wrapper. A very nice copy of this most important Burgess #99 choice. The source book for the thrice filmed dystopia.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, one of 20,000 copies. Octavo (21cm); publisher's taupe cloth, with titles stamped in maroon and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],[2],3-314,[2]pp. Hint of foxing to lower front cover, lower right corner of front board gently tapped (though still sharp); fresh internally; Near Fine. In the blue variant dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.00), showing pinpoint wear to spine ends and corner tips, with two tiny tears to upper rear panel, and a faint, tiny stain to front panel; a bright, Near Fine copy. Orwell's towering work of dystopian fiction, the vocabulary of which has become a part of the fabric of our culture. "The title marks the triumph of the totalitarian state. Three superpowers divide the world and conduct sham wars. Newspeak is official, insidious language used to propagate lies. Big Brother polices you through two-way TV in your quarters. Romance is forbidden, sex is a political act. Personal opinion is neutralized by brainwashing. Life is hell. One of the half-dozen most influential novels of the twentieth century" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 3-302). Basis for two notable film adaptations: Michael Anderson's 1956 film starring Edmund O'Brien, and Michael Radford's later picture starring John Hurt and Richard Burton. An attractive copy of a notoriously wear-prone title. Fenwick A12b; Connolly 100; Burgess 99.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1949.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first American edition. $3.00 on the front flap. Stated first American edition. Near Fine Blue DJ in archival cover, minimal edge wear on spine.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1949.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first American edition. $3.00 on the front flap. Stated first American edition. Near Fine Red DJ in archival cover, minimal edge wear to corners.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]. Secker & Warburg, 1949.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of George Orwell's (1903-1950) classic dystopian novel that has captured the imagination and fears of readers, critics, and social observers ever since its publication in 1949. Orwell's ninth and final book, written and published in the closing years of his life, Nineteen Eighty-Four provides a gripping and prophetic meditation on the twentieth century's totalitarian movements. Set in an imaginary future (1984) absorbed in conflict, the story traces the fate of Winston Smith, a diligent party worker in the superstate of Oceania, who secretly abhors and yearns to rebel against the ruling Party and its dictatorial leader, Big Brother. Equal parts science fiction and cautionary tale, Nineteen Eighty-Four accentuates the historical revisionism, propaganda practices, linguistic manipulation, and violence that characterized Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and other ascendent totalitarian ideologies of the pre- and postwar world. Nineteen Eighty-Four would share important themes with Orwell's satirical and allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945), including an emphasis on social stratification, the subordination of the modern individual to the collective, the power and manipulability of language, and the consequences of ideological revolution. Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published in the UK by Secker & Warburg in 1949 to high critical acclaim, and in the US by Harcourt, Brace & Company the same year. It has remained a mainstay on popular and critical reading lists ever since, and its concepts and neologisms, including "Big Brother," "doublespeak," "thoughtcrime," and "memory hole," have managed to endure as important terms in our twenty-first century lexicon-as has the eponymous phrase "Orwellian." In 2005, Time Magazine selected the book as one of the 100 best English-language works published between 1923 and 2005, and the Modern Library named it one of the best works published in the twentieth century. One of the greatest works of modern fiction, here in first edition with a striking custom binding. Octavo. First edition rebound in modern red morocco with skull buttons and "Winston Smith" lettered in white to left breast with on-laid fake eye to chest with blind-stamped lines; title and name lettered in white on spine; front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns replaced with collage of Orwell's eyes, including a secret "trapdoor" on front pastedown disclosing a picture of the Queen of England; minor toning to certain leaves, including title page (as pictured). Brilliant first edition in remarkable custom binding. First edition, first printing with "First published 1949" on copyright page.
Seller: Respublica Books LLC, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.