Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]
by Orwell, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co.. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. 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+ .
Synopsis
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell has become the definitive dystopian novel of the twentieth century. Originally published on June 8, 1949 by Secker and Warburg in the United Kingdom, the book follows the main character, Winston Smith, through his disillusionment with totalitarianism and a doomed struggle of resistance. George Orwell is a pen-name, Orwell's real name was Eric Blair. -
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A good read very ahead of its time.
Prophetic
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- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52029
- Title
- Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]
- Author
- Orwell, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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