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Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949

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December 10, 05:06 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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ORWELL, GEORGE

Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949


8vo, first edition, original green calico-textured cloth on boards, spine lettered in red, red dust-jacket, preserved in card chemise, very slight spotting to a few leaves and cloth, jacket slightly faded on spine, jacket slightly creased and slightly nicked at extremities


FIRST EDITION OF ARGUABLY THE GREATEST DYSTOPIAN NOVEL OF MODERN TIMES, now almost incessantly referenced in any debate about the use of technology and algorithms by the surveillance state or trans-global corporations to track, control, or influence citizens across the world.


LITERATURE:

Fenwick A.12a; Connolly 99


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