First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt title to spine, dust jacket designed by Lynton Lamb. London, Methuen & Co, 1954.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus. 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 indeed, dust jacket with light edge wear and some dust soiling.
