ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four. 8vo, bound in modern full black leather by Exeter Bookbinders, styled as man's jacket, raised metal skeletons as buttons, within the folded lapels is a genuine onlayed prosthetic or "fake" eye with tan calf eyelids, front and rear covers gilt-lettered, blind rules; pastedowns and free endpapers with patterned collage of the author's eyes, with two secret panels on the front pastedown concealing a Ten Shilling Bank Note of England displaying HM Queen Elizabeth's II's face and a one dollar bill displaying George Washington; binder's gilt leather label mounted to rear pastedown also beneath secret panel designating this as "The Black Edition 5 of 5." The bindery also produced 100 numbered copies in various other colored bindings. First edition, and one of the 5 special copies done in black leather by Exeter Bookbinders created to commemorate the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949