Victory or Vested Interest?
First trade edition. 8vo. Original tan cloth, black lettering to spine. London, George Routledge, 1942.
First trade edition. 8vo. Original tan cloth, black lettering to spine. London, George Routledge, 1942.
A collection of essays on wartime life and challenges. Contributions by G.D.H. Cole, Francis Williams, Harold J. Laski, Mary Sutherland and George Orwell.
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 a few pencil notes in his 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 fair copy, lacking dust jacket. Back cover cloth discoloured. Sporadic light foxing, including to fore-edge.