Victory or Vested Interest?

£75 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A collection of essays on wartime life and challenges. Contributions by G.D.H. Cole, Francis Williams, Harold J. Laski, Mary Sutherland and George Orwell. Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper and a few pencil notes in his hand. 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 fair copy, lacking dust jacket. Back cover cloth discoloured. Sporadic light foxing, including to fore-edge.

• Year: 1942

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