ORWELL, GEORGE. 1903-1950. Nineteen Eighty-Four. London Secker & Warburg, 1949.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IORWELL, GEORGE. 1903-1950.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. 8vo. Publisher's light green cloth, red lettering on spine, red dust-jacket designed by Michael Kennard. Cloth slightly sunned at edges and spine, jacket spine sunned, chipping to all corners, creases and small tears around head of spine.FIRST EDITION of Orwell's dystopian classic, with the red jacket variant, less commonly found than the green jacket. "... a warning against totalitarianism under any disguise — left or right" (Connolly Modern Movement 99). Fenwick A.12a.