Orwell’s first published novel, originally published in New York in the previous year. Set in Burma during the waning years of the British Empire, the novel stands as a ‘portrait of the dark side of the British Raj’.
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 good copy only, spotting to outer leaves and edges of text block with heavy offsetting to half title, heavy lean to text block, light shelf wear and a few tiny knocks to extremities.
