(Samizdat) Nineteen Eighty-Four
[Czechoslovakia]: [No Publisher], [1950s-1970s].
Early, unattributed Czech samizdat edition of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four. 201 pp. Carbon copy sheets printed on rectos only, bound in homespun yellow and white wallpaper wraps with blue pen manuscript spine. Very Good with light edge wear, slight bumping and lifting to corners, and minor soiling to wraps. Minor loss to title page margins; some soiling at margins. A relic of dissident activity from the Communist-controlled Eastern Bloc, wherein people reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications or "samizdat," often by hand, circulating these documents from reader to reader. The perfect novel to be found in samizdat format: Nineteen Eighty-Four was banned and prohibited to be published in communist countries for its strongly anti-totalitarian message.
Price: $3,750