Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-four. - Jun 16, 2022 | Swann Auction Galleries In Ny
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ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four.
ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four. 8vo, bound in modern full red leather by Exeter Bookbinders, styled as man's jacket, raised metal skeletons as buttons, within the folded lapels is a genuine onlayed prosthetic or "fake eye" with tan calf eyelids, front and rear covers lettered in white, blind rules; pastedowns and free endpapers with patterned collage of the author's eyes, with a secret panel on the front pastedown concealing a Ten Shilling Bank Note of England displaying HM Queen Elizabeth's II's face; binder's gilt leather label mounted to rear pastedown designating this as Number 58 of 100 copies. First edition in an evocative binding. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949
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ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Estimate $1,500 - $2,000
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Starting Price $1,100
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Auction Curated By
John D. Larson
Specialist Literature & Art Books
Marco Tomaschett
Specialist, Autographs
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