Nineteen Eighty-Four

Overview:

  • Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Author: George Orwell
  • Year: Unknown
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Price: £7.99
  • Pages: xxi+326
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Notes:
    Stated 11th printing of the 2000 edition, by number line. Title page:
    • "George Orwell [over] Nineteen Eighty-Four"
    • Penguin colophon [over] "Penguin Books [over] in association with Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd"
    Copyright page:
    • "Penguin Books"
    • "Published by the Penguin Group"
    • "Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2E 0RL, England"
    • "First published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1949"
    • "Uniform Edition first published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1950"
    • "Published in Penguin Books 1954"
    • "This edition first published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd [over] in the Complete Works of George Orwell series 1987"
    • "Published in Penguin Books with an Introduction and a new Note on the Text 1989"
    • "Reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000"
    • Number line: "11"
    • "Copyright 1949 by Eric Blair"
    • "This edition copyright © the Estate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell, 1987"
    • "Introduction copyright © Ben Pimlott, 1989"
    • "Note on the Text copyright © Peter Davison, 1989"
    • "Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
    Back cover:
    • "Cover photograph by Philippa Bogle, winner of the Guardian and [over] Penguin Modern Classics photography competition 2003. By kind [over] permission of Le Georges, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris."
    • "U.K. £7.99, CAN. $19.00"
    • No barcode. No ISBN anywhere in the book.
    Introduction, signed "Ben Pimlott", finishes on unnumbered page xvii. The Note, signed "Peter Davison [over] Albany, London", finishes on unnumbered page xxi. Novel finishes unnumbered page 311 with "The End". Appendix finishes on unnumbered page 326 and is unsigned. Gloss cover.