George. The Road to Wigan Pier.

by ORWELL

£250 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

ORWELL, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Victor Gollancz . 1937. 8vo. Limp orange cloth lettered in black to front cover and spine; pp. xxiv, 264, with sixteen pages of photographic plates; a little soiling and general wear to cloth, a little cocked with slight creasing to spine, light toning and spotting to edges of textblock; very good. First edition, first impression. ​This Left Book Club edition, one of 44,150 copies issued for ​members in early 1937, preceded the first trade edition, issued in March the same year with a variant binding and lacking Victor Gollancz's foreword (critical of the book, but appreciated by the author). Orwell's great polemical account of working-class life in industrial Yorkshire and Lancashire has never been out of print and has lost none of its political bite in the intervening years. Fenwick A5a SKU: 2124294

• Binding: Hardcover

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