First Left Book Club edition (not for sale), first impression. Black and white photographic illustrations. 8vo. Original orange cloth wrappers with black lettering. London, Victor Gollancz, 1937.
Orwell's fifth published book, a searing account of the bleak living and working conditions of industrial workers in northern England. A polemical work, the publisher famously attempted to distance himself from Orwell's support of socialism and other radical ideas in the foreword.
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 overall, text-block split at p. 104 and p. 138, wrappers with some wear and small fraying to edges, spine creased.
