SPENDER (Stephen). & ORWELL (George), editor.

Life and the Poet.

First edition. 8vo. Original cream wrapper with blue lettering, dust jacket. London, Secker & Warburg, 1942.

£80.00
SPENDER (Stephen). & ORWELL (George), editor.
Life and the Poet.

No. 18 in the Searchlight Books essays series, edited by Orwell and T.R. Fyvel. A rather scare wartime publication, with the printing being affected by a bomb that hit the Warburg offices in April 1941.

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, dust jacket and wrappers a bit rubbed and dust soiled, minor foxing.

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