ORWELL (George).
Coming Up For Air.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth boards, dark blue lettering to spine. London, Victor Gollancz, 1939.
ORWELL (George).
Coming Up For Air.
Orwell's fourth novel. Only 2,000 copies were printed.
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, remains of bookplate removed from rear pastedown, paperstock quite browned but contents otherwise generally unmarked, heavy lean to text-block, cloth rather worn and marked, spine browned, faint trace of old Boots Book-Lovers' Library label removed from front cover.
Fenwick A7a.
Stock No.
260730
