ORWELL (GEORGE) Nineteen Eighty-Four, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, light spotting on endpapers, publisher's cloth (spine and edges faded), dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Kennard in red and white, priced "10s.net" (some scratch marks to front panel, chipped at corners, spine faded with tears and slight loss at ends) [Connolly 99; Fenwick, A.12a], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1949 FIRST EDITION OF ORWELL'S FINAL NOVEL AND THE BENCHMARK FOR ALL DYSTOPIAN FICTION. The jacket was printed in both red and green variants, with no priority established. Provenance: Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000); by descent to the present owner.