8vo. Original lime green cloth, red-lettered on spine, top edge stained red; original unclipped dust jacket (a very light touch of rubbing at extreme ends and fore-corners).

FIRST EDITION of Orwell's last novel, published just a year before his death, written with "particular feeling and clarity"; "even the political arguments are never dull. In fact they are worked out with passionate logic. 'Double Think', 'Newspeak', 'Big Brother' now form part of the language. It is a warning against totalitarianism under any disguise -- left or right" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 99). Fenwick records two variant states of the dust jacket, one green and one red, with no priority. Fenwick A12a. A FINE AND UNRESTORED COPY.