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Author:	Eric Arthur Blair as George Orwell
Title:	Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]
Publisher:	Penguin
Country:	UK
Date:	2003
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9780141187761
Total Editions:	15
First Published:	1949
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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377 Pages
With an Afterword by Thomas Pynchon (2003) and a Note on the Text by Peter Davison (1989)

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Eric Arthur Blair - Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984] - Secker And Warburg - Hardcover - UK (1949)

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ppint. 16th Jan 2022		hiwatt1973 thank-you. it's infernally tricky to read the auspices (? perform a haruspectomy ?) accurately in this modern minimal-number-of-major-mega-world-straddling-publishers world, isn't it? - and random penguin are (is?) themselves owned by bertelsmann of (fundamentally) germany. . . uk international airport bookshops, newsagents &c. were the first shops in the yuk-of-gb-&-ni considered to be outside of the yuk-of-gb-&-ni for copyright territories purposes, and thus outside of the net book agreement terms (ancient history dept!), and permitted to order ''open market'' editions from - well, anywhere in the world, technically; but from both uk and merkin publishers & wholesalers in practice. - i'm still inclined to suspect this is an edition *intended* for distribution ''north of the parallel'' - but it's possible someone just made a mistake, and that final bloc was meant to be 00899, or 500899...



hiwatt1973 16th Jan 2022		Hi ppint This edition typeset by Jouve (UK), Milton Keynes. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd Penguin Random House UK. I purchased it from the bookshop at Birmingham Airport (BHX) I do see what you mean about the barcode.



ppint. 16th Jan 2022		hiwatt1973 is this not a canadian penguin books p/b? i'm asking this because of the complete bar-code number: 9780141187761 61899 in which the second, smaller bloc encodes not the uk cover price of £8.99, but the canadian $18.99 there may be further indicatory clues, possibly including such information as where this copy was printed - normally stated on the reverse of the title page; the listing of the different parts of the global penguimperium may give prominence to penguin books canada, and possibly also the end pp. advertisements may be primarily of penguin p/bs noted as being available in canada as well as in the uk-of-gb-&-ni...



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