Life and the Poet.

£80 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd · No longer available

No. 18 in the Searchlight Books essays series, edited by Orwell and T.R. Fyvel. A rather scare wartime publication, with the printing being affected by a bomb that hit the Warburg offices in April 1941. Provenance: 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 very good copy, dust jacket and wrappers a bit rubbed and dust soiled, minor foxing.

• Year: 1942

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