Coming Up For Air.
First edition, second printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth boards, dark blue lettering to spine. London, Victor Gollancz, 1939.
First edition, second printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth boards, dark blue lettering to spine. London, Victor Gollancz, 1939.
A very good copy of the rare second impression of Orwell's fourth novel, printed in the same month as the first. Only 1,000 copies of this printing were published.
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 overall, light foxing to first few pages, contents otherwise generally clean, cloth somewhat worn and unevenly faded.
Fenwick A7a.