The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair, Seamus Heaney association

£350 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. [Left Book Club] FIRST EDITION, first impression. A significant copy, formerly the property of Seamus Heaney's English teacher, poet W.J. Harvey (recent provenance book label supplied). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxiv, 264. Publisher's orange soft covers, with thirty-two photographic plates, primarily of scenes of social deprivation..... More

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