First edition. 8vo. Original dark green cloth with silver lettering to spine, dust jacket designed by Janet Halverson. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956.
With a carbon copy of a letter relating to the sale of a collection of Orwell letters loosely inserted.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper and annotations to the contents pages in Angus' hand. 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, dust jacket rather worn and dust stained, some repairs verso.
