ORWELL (George).
Down and Out in Paris and London.
The second 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 near fine copy, slight lean to spine with minor wear at tips, contents clean and unmarked.
