First Public Edition (Above - Left)
Published by Victor Gollancz (London) on 8 March 1937. Edition of 2,150 copies. Binding: Blue calico textured cloth on boards. Note: This edition is simply a reissue of the LBC printing but with a hardcover and a dustjacket.
Left Book Club Edition (Above - Right)
Published by Victor Gollancz (London) in late February 1937. Edition of 44,150 copies (the largest printing of an Orwell book until the American edition of Animal Farm in 1946). Binding: Limp orange cloth. Cover states: "Left Book Club Edition - Not for Sale to the Public".
First American Edition (Right)
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York) in 1958.
Imprint states: "First American Edition 1958". Binding: Blue calico textured cloth on boards.
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