NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript; Edited by Peter Davidson

Author: ORWELL, George
Title: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript; Edited by Peter Davidson
Publication: London: Secker and Warburg, 1984

Description: First trade edition. Small folio. xx, 381, [3] pp. Full maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, white printed dustjacket. Housed in publisher's plain card slipcase. Very good in dust jacket and slipcase. The manuscript (the only existing Orwell manuscript) originated with Orwell's widow, who offered it to a charity auction, where it ultimately ended up in the vault in the rare book room of Scribner's Bookstore in New York. It was acquired by bookseller and publisher Dan Siegel, who offers a lengthy preface to this edition. With an introduction and notes by professor and Orwell scholar Peter Davison, who transcribed the manuscript. FENWICK A.12.M8; LEWIS, p.139; BOOKER, pp.208-213.

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