Lot 114
Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, one of 100 copies specially-bound by Exeter Bookbinders, 1949
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂ Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, number 93 of 100 copies specially-bound by Exeter Bookbinders, occasional light marking to margins, one or two ff. with neat repairs to upper margins, endpaper collage of Orwell's eyes, 2 small compartments to front pastedown revealing Ten Shilling Bank of England note with the face of Queen Elizabeth II and an old dollar bill with the face of George Washington, IE Exeter Bookbinders "Certificate of Authenticity" leather label to rear pastedown, concealed by panel, modern burgundy leather in jacket design with skull buttons and gilt lettering "Winston Smith" to the left breast, onlayed prosthetic eye to chest with leather eyelid, title and date lettered in gilt on lower cover, [Fenwick A12a], 8vo, Secker and Warburg, 1949.
Description
⁂ Please note the description of this lot has changed ⁂ Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, number 93 of 100 copies specially-bound by Exeter Bookbinders, occasional light marking to margins, one or two ff. with neat repairs to upper margins, endpaper collage of Orwell's eyes, 2 small compartments to front pastedown revealing Ten Shilling Bank of England note with the face of Queen Elizabeth II and an old dollar bill with the face of George Washington, IE Exeter Bookbinders "Certificate of Authenticity" leather label to rear pastedown, concealed by panel, modern burgundy leather in jacket design with skull buttons and gilt lettering "Winston Smith" to the left breast, onlayed prosthetic eye to chest with leather eyelid, title and date lettered in gilt on lower cover, [Fenwick A12a], 8vo, Secker and Warburg, 1949.