ORWELL (George).

Down and Out in Paris and London.

First edition, third impression. 8vo. Original black cloth with greenish lettering to spine. London, Victor Gollancz, 1933.

£950.00
ORWELL (George).
Down and Out in Paris and London.

The third impression, published in the same month and year as the first, of Orwell’s first published novel, a semi-autobiographical work.

Provenance: 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 very good copy, some foxing to fore edge, cloth with a few light spots. Some browning to first and last pages.

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