The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume I: An Age Like This, 1920-1940; Volume II: My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943; Volume III: As I Please, 1943-1945; Volume IV: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950.
ORWELL (George).

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume I: An Age Like This, 1920-1940; Volume II: My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943; Volume III: As I Please, 1943-1945; Volume IV: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950.

THE EDITOR'S COPY

Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. First American edition. Four volumes. Frontispiece to each volume. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, dust jackets. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

£575.00
ORWELL (George).
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume I: An Age Like This, 1920-1940; Volume II: My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943; Volume III: As I Please, 1943-1945; Volume IV: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950.

Provenance: From the library of the co-editor Ian Angus. An Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian, Ian Angus would also later contribute towards editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.

Curiously, each volume with a double dust jacket.

A near fine set, spines a bit sunned.

Fenwick D.12b.

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