The uncommon second impression, printed only one month after the first.
Orwell’s fifth published book, a searing account of the bleak living and working conditions of industrial workers in northern England. A polemical work, the publisher famously attempted to distance himself from Orwell’s support of socialism and other radical ideas in the foreword.
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.
An acceptable copy, wrappers very worn and stained. Some foxing to first and last pages.
