ORWELL (George).

Collected Essays.

First collected edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt on orange ground, dust jacket. London, Secker & Warburg, 1961.

£350.00

‘This volume collects all George Orwell’s published essays with the exception of the short pieces contributed to Tribune under the title I Write as I Please. Originally contained in three volumes Critical Essays, Shooting an Elephant and England Your England, they are here printed in order of first publication’ (publisher’s blurb).

A near fine copy of the uncommon first edition, small amount of spotting to top edge and outer leaves, contents otherwise generally clean, the jacket remains bright and virtually unworn with only minor spotting to rear panel.

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