The trade edition of Orwell’s classic study of poverty in the North of England, comfortably his most celebrated work of non-fiction. Originally published as part of the Left Book Club, the present example is without the preface by Victor Gollancz. ‘Only about 150 copies of the trade edition carried Gollancz’s foreword; the rest of the 2,000 or so copies of the trade edition did not’ (George Orwell: An Exhibition at the Grolier Club Fall 1996).
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 good copy, scattered foxing to outer leaves and edges of text block, cloth somewhat marked with some minor shelf wear to extremities, gilt lettering dulled.
