The second printing of Orwell’s classic anti-totalitarian fable, printed just weeks after the first. With a subtitle wryly announcing it as ‘A Fairy Story,’ Orwell maintained that he ‘did not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure’.
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.
A rather compromised example, paperstock uniformly browned, just hint of faint spotting to endpapers and edges, contents otherwise generally unmarked, jacket heavily worn with substantial loss to upper portion of spine panel.
