Lot 119
Orwell, George
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
The road to Wigan Pier. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First edition (Left Book Club edition), 8vo., publisher's orange limp covers, wear at corners; [Idem] Animal farm: a fairy story. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. First edition, second printing, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust wrapper, wrapper chipped at head and tail, signature of David Garnett; [Idem] Nineteen eighty-four. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949. First U.S. edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth; [Idem] 'Unpublished notebooks' in World Review, June 1950. London: Hulton, 1950. 8vo., printed wrappers; [Idem] '1984 and newspeak' in World Review, New Series no 3. London: Hulton, 1949. 8vo., printed wrappers (5)