Signed: Down And Out In Paris And London GEORGE ORWELL First Printing
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Down and Out in Paris and London GEORGE ORWELL.
First edition. Black buckram boards with yellow lettering to spine. A good plus copy. Unrubbed boards; light translucent splashmarks to frony board. Black spine with slight rubbing. Internally fine & untouched with no inscriptions. Slight lean. Very clean & fresh textblock edges. None of the usual foxing - remarkably crisp. Aside from the splashmarks, an exceptional copy of a rare title. Authors first full length work written in t...wo parts about his time with the destitute in Paris & London & about living life on the margins. 1500 copies most of which are in Orwell museums.
Here is a quote from The Telegraph in 2010 when the last copy was sold.Gorringes auction house book specialist Aaron Dean said ''To put the significance of that in perspective, last year a copy which was not in great condition and didn't have a dust jacket sold for £13, 200”
Published in January 1933 by Victor Gollancz, Down And Out In Paris And London is an autobiographical work by Orwell, split into two parts, on the theme of poverty in the two capital cities.It was initially rejected by two major publishers, with TS Eliot dismissing it when he worked for Faber and Faber as a book that ''does not appear to me possible as a publishing venture''.However, Orwell's agent later announced that Gollancz would publish the work provided Orwell edited out some details, including bad language.The Indian-born author, who died in 1950, went on to write two of the 20th century's most famous novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The rarest of all his titles and a must have for any serious Orwell collector.
First edition. Black buckram boards with yellow lettering to spine. A good plus copy. Unrubbed boards; light translucent splashmarks to frony board. Black spine with slight rubbing. Internally fine & untouched with no inscriptions. Slight lean. Very clean & fresh textblock edges. None of the usual foxing - remarkably crisp. Aside from the splashmarks, an exceptional copy of a rare title. Authors first full length work written in t...wo parts about his time with the destitute in Paris & London & about living life on the margins. 1500 copies most of which are in Orwell museums.
Here is a quote from The Telegraph in 2010 when the last copy was sold.Gorringes auction house book specialist Aaron Dean said ''To put the significance of that in perspective, last year a copy which was not in great condition and didn't have a dust jacket sold for £13, 200”
Published in January 1933 by Victor Gollancz, Down And Out In Paris And London is an autobiographical work by Orwell, split into two parts, on the theme of poverty in the two capital cities.It was initially rejected by two major publishers, with TS Eliot dismissing it when he worked for Faber and Faber as a book that ''does not appear to me possible as a publishing venture''.However, Orwell's agent later announced that Gollancz would publish the work provided Orwell edited out some details, including bad language.The Indian-born author, who died in 1950, went on to write two of the 20th century's most famous novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The rarest of all his titles and a must have for any serious Orwell collector.
