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George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 - First Edition, First Impression - Navy Morocco Design Binding I.W. Taber illustrations and the forging of characterORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty Four. First Edition, First Impression, 1949. Navy Morocco Design Binding. ORWELL, George [Eric Arthur Blair]. Nineteen Eighty Four. A Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Striking full navy morocco design binding, with dramatic red morocco onlays and geometric gilt tooling to both boards, centred upon a solitary dark figure beneath converging forms suggestive of surveillance,