Nineteen Eighty-Four.

£525 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

First Canadian edition with the variant red dust jacket. 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 with edge wear and small tears. Fenwick A.12d.

• Year: 1949

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