The Voyage of Magellan.

£75 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

With a typed slip from the publisher reading “Please receive the enclosed book for review” loosely inserted. Later from the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership dated ‘7.8.78’ 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. A good copy only, dust jacket rather worn with some sellotape repairs verso, lower inner flap and back board corner water stained. Front endpaper browned.

• Year: 1948

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