The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair

$75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. Left Book Club FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 22 x 15cm , pp.xxiv, 264. Publisher's orange soft covers, with thirty-two photographic plates, primarily of scenes of social deprivation in mining towns. A well-thumbed copy, with toning and spotting to edges. Moderate general wear to covers, including a 2cm split to head of spine, general marks to front cover, and some discolouration to spine. Good. Orwell's famous

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