Nineteen Eighty-Four.

£250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd · No longer available

A later printing, without ‘First American Edition’ to the copyright page 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 good copy only, with significant wear to dust jacket, some repairs verso.

• Year: 1949

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