London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with spine cloth toned through dust jacket, faint spotting to top textblock edge, pages lightly toned with faint foxing to endsheets. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with spine toning, edge wear and foxing to the flaps and blindside. The first publication of the classic dystopian novel that posited a nearly omnipotent totalitarian state essentially built from the ground up, rather than the top-down dictatorship of 1984.[Attributes: First Edition; In Dust Jacket]