Time Was Away. A Notebook in Corsica.

£1,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A very good copy, dust jacket with some edge wear and browned along spine and verso. With a clipping from a Christie’s catalogue on a Minton artwork loosely inserted. From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.

• Year: 1948

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