8vo. Half-title. Original green cloth, red-lettered on spine (some offsetting of jacket to boards, spine slightly faded, erased pencil mark on endleaf); in unclipped green dust jacket (a few small chips and tears with occasional repairs on verso, slight rubbing to folds).
 
FIRST EDITION of Orwell's last novel, published just a year before his death, written with "particular feeling and clarity"; "even the political arguments are never dull. In fact they are worked out with passionate logic. 'Double Think', 'Newspeak', 'Big Brother' now form part of the language. It is a warning against totalitarianism under any disguise -- left or right" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 99). Fenwick records two variant states of the dust jacket, one green and one red, with no priority. Fenwick A12a.