Keep The Aspidistra Flying.

  • Orwell, George
  • London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1936

£400

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 318. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue. Some scattered soiling and spotting. Binding soiled and marked, spine a little cocked, hinges split but cords holding. Circulating library ink stamp to flyleaf.

Notes

Orwell's third novel, influenced by his time working in a Hampstead bookshop. Not a lovely copy but spared the overzealous ink-stamping sometimes seen in circulating library copies of this period, with a single stamp from Lee's Library, 162 Byres Road, to the otherwise-blank flyleaf.

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