Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
First American edition, first printing of Orwell's dystopian classic, published the same year as the British first edition.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Publisher's original beige cloth, lettered and decorated in red and black; pp. [iv], 314. In the blue variant dust jacket, no priority determined. A near fine copy in a very good or slightly better unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy and square, a touch over opened at the title page, minimal wear to boards, internally clean. Jacket shows light general shelfwear, a few creases, toning to spine, neat professional restoration along spine joints and to a portion of the upper back panel. Presents very well in archival mylar.