Statement Against Corpses.

£225 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Inscribed by B.S. Johnson to front free endpaper, ‘For John: Bryan’, and additionally signed by both authors on the title page. From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the upper pastedown. 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 very good copy overall, jacket rubbed with small tape repair to verso, spine panel slightly discoloured, foxing to fore edge.

• Year: 1964

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