George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 - First Edition, First Impression - Navy Morocco Design Binding I.W. Taber illustrations framed in dense gilt and

framed in dense gilt and paired with his lavish floral spine — remains wonderfully sharp on this copy

Condition: Very good - some offsetting

Portal’s wartime air command

the inclusion of the accounts of the demise of those who prosecuted James

with its capacity for fine

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 - First Edition, First Impression - Navy Morocco Design Binding I.W. Taber illustrations framed in dense gilt andORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty Four. First Edition, First Impression, 1949. Navy Morocco Design Binding. ORWELL, George [Eric Arthur Blair]. Nineteen Eighty Four. A Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Striking full navy morocco design binding, with dramatic red morocco onlays and geometric gilt tooling to both boards, centred upon a solitary dark figure beneath converging forms suggestive of surveillance,