Down and Out in Paris and London

by Orwell, George

$1,250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1933. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in purple and black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean to binding, light fading to spine, and soiling to boards. Top corner of upper board lightly bumped, foxing to textblock edges with light toning to contents. Orwell's first published novel, a semi-autobiographical expose intended for the middle and upper classes, about destitution and poverty from a tramp's perspective.

  • Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers
  • Year: 1933
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Printing: first
  • Binding: unknown

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