Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript

Published by Secker and Warburg, London, 1984

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

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Quarto (35cm); full maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's plain card slipcase; xx,381,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine (unclipped) dustjacket, lacking the original card slipcase. Handsome edition of Orwell's towering dystopian novel, reproducing to scale the only extant manuscript for any of Orwell's works. The manuscript originated with Orwell's widow, who offered it to a charity auction, and ultimately ended up in the vault in the rare book room of Scribner's Bookstore in New York, where it was acquired by bookseller and publisher Dan Siegel, who offers a lengthy preface to this edition. With an introduction and notes by professor and Orwell scholar Peter Davison, who transcribed the manuscript. FENWICK A.12.M8; LEWIS, p.139; BOOKER, pp.208-213.

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Title
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript
Author
[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] ORWELL, George (novel); DAVISON, Peter (editor)
Publisher
Secker and Warburg, London
Publication year
1984
Dust jacket
dj
Edition
First Trade Edition.
Seller catalogs
Dystopias, Modern Fiction, Radical & Proletarian Literature

Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

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