Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays

by George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair

$175 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Secker and Warburg, 1950. Literature FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp. viii ; 212. Light green cloth boards with red titles to spine, top edge red. In grey and red pictorial dust-jacket with white text designed by Michael Kennard. Later newspaper article tucked-in. No inscriptions or price-clipping, light wear to crown; a near fine copy with the usual sunning to spine. A series of literary essays previously published in periodicals such as 'New

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