A fine copy of the first American edition of one of Orwell’s most famous works.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.
Dust jacket with some trivial shelf wear to edges, just a hint of faint marking to rear panel, small ‘J.W. Robinson Co.’ bookseller’s label to rear flap.
