ORWELL (George).

England Your England and Other Essays.

First edition. 8vo. Original pale green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in red, top edge in red, dust jacket. London, Secker & Warburg, 1953.

£200.00

A posthumously published collection of some of Orwell’s finest essays.

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, a few occasional neat pencilled annotations by Ian Angus, contents otherwise generally clean and fresh, jacket slightly edge worn with loss to head of spine panel.

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