Lot 179
![Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur]](https://media.app.artisio.co/media/104cbde6-0d38-43cb-9e0f-bb721ef57bcf/inventory/0469fda6-ae91-4a7d-a043-c5b695088678/5f580b99-152a-4324-9767-9b5fa3ab969f/0001_uSaojg_original.jpg)
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur]
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
Inside the whale and other essays. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author on front free endpaper "With all the best / Eric Blair", half title, original black cloth gilt, lacking dustwrapper, some rubbing to edges of cloth, foxing to endpaper
Footnote
Note: Fenwick A.8a TO CHECK
A scarce Orwell title, around 1000 copies were printed in 1940 and went out of print before the end of the year. However, all the volumes were not sold, some were destroyed during an air raid. No American edition has been published. These essays, as one critic later remarked, are “small masterpieces in a limited field”.
No other inscribed copies appear in the auction records from 1975 onwards (ABPC).