A Clergyman's Daughter.

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd · No longer available

The first American edition of Orwell’s second novel, published a year after the first edition. 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, lacking the dust jacket. Corner of front free endpaper crudely excised, some light browning, heavy lean to spine, edges rubbed.

• Year: 1936

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