Digital Rare Book :
Nineteen Eighty-Four
By George Orwell

First Edition (Above - Left)
Published by Secker and Warburg (London) on 8 June 1949. Edition of 25,575 copies. Imprint states: "First published 1949". Binding: Green calico-textured cloth on boards. Dustjackets printed in both red and green versions. Wrap-around-band included on copies that were sold as the Evening Standard's "Book of the Month".

First American Edition (Above - Right)
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York) on 13 June 1949. Edition of 20,000 copies. Imprint states: "First American Edition". Binding: Grey calico cloth on boards. Followed by a "Book of the Month Club" edition which sold 190,000 copies by March 1952.