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Eight First Edition Covers of Classic Novels

  1. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932. Cover design by Leslie Holland. 
  2. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scribner, New York, 1925. Cover design by Francis Cugat.
  3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Macmillan, 1865
  4. The Trial (Der Process), by Franz Kafka. Die Schmiede, Berlin, 1925
  5. Animal Farm, by George Orwell. Secker and Warburg, London, 1945
  6. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac. Viking Press, New York, 1957
  7. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. William Heinemann, London, 1962
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. Secker and Warburg, London, 1949. Cover design by Michael Kennard.

From The First Edition Covers of 25 Classic Books

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