ORWELL (George).

Such, Such Were the Joys.

First American edition. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt title to spine, dust jacket. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.

£75.00
ORWELL (George).
Such, Such Were the Joys.

A posthumously published collection of essays by Orwell.

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 good copy only, dust jacket very worn, spine panel faded with substantial loss at head and two small tape repairs to verso.

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260746