George Orwell — Nineteen Eighty-Four

London, Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition. Leather. The first U.K. edition of George Orwell's important and culture defining dystopian novel, a superb finely bound copy. 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. In a full crushed morocco binding, bound by Period Binders of Bath. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .