Nineteen Eighty-Four Part II

In July 1950 The New American Library of World Literature (NAL) published the first American paperback edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In 2014 NAL published the 129th "printing" of this book. An amazing record of an average of two "printings" every year for 64 years.

I put the word printing in quotes because the 129 versions are not technically all printings of a single edition. Because the book was reset over the years there are a number of editions each with one or more impressions adding up to 129. Below are printings one and fourteen of the first edition as well as the 129th "printing". I don't know which edition this is. This last version has an afterword from Erich Fromm which first appeared in 1961 with the first printing of the "Signet Classics" edition.

Signet 798 - 1st printing July 1950

 

Signet 798 back

 

Signet S798 - 14th printing May 1956

 

Signet S798 - back

 

Signet - 129th - 2014

 

Signet 129th - back