Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949. First American Edition. Pp, 314. Publisher’s first state dust wrapper in red with bold black titles, caricature of Orwell on rear cover by George Holland. Beige cloth stamped in red and black. Jacket lightly chipped at head & tail of spine and along folds; the book in nice bright condition.

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 in 1945, critics hailed him as a new Jonathan Swift.