1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four

Description

Fine Binding, First Edition, Leather Binding

The first UK. edition, with 'First published 1949' stated to the copyright page.

Finely bound in a crushed morocco binding with gilt decoration to the front board, bound by Period Binders of Bath.

The important dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell, a monumental cautionary tale that became an essential part of the zeitgeist after its publication.

Orwell modelled his totalitarian government after Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, written in the fall out of the Second World War. 

This is the defining novel of the dystopian genre, popularising the term 'Orwellian' as an ominous adjective.

The original cloth is included, with a mock of the binding design in ink to the front board.