The Violins of Saint Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles.

£95 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The author’s second book and only novel. 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. A good copy, dust jacket price clipped and worn along edges, lacking small pieces and some sellotape repairs verso. Internally fine.

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