First edition. Illustrations by Ursula Birnstingl, E. Bawden, Ceri Richards, Althea Willoughby, Vera Willoughby and William Nicholson, among others. 8vo. Original cloth-backed paper boards with title piece to front cover, gilt title on spine, price-clipped dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape, 1930.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus. 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, dust jacket with some small tears along edges.
