Lot 543
Orwell (George) Coming Up for Air, first edition, 1939.
Hammer Price: £10,000
Description
Orwell (George) Coming Up for Air, first edition, original blue cloth, light sunning to spine, light toning and the odd scattered spot to covers, dust-jacket, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corners with neat and expert repairs and restoration with 1" portion at foot of spine supplied in excellent facsimile, some light rubbing to extremities, but in effect an excellent example, [Fenwick A7a], 8vo, 1939.
⁂ Orwell's bleak satire on the state of the English home counties and the impending war. Among the most difficult of his titles to find in dust-jacket.
Description
Orwell (George) Coming Up for Air, first edition, original blue cloth, light sunning to spine, light toning and the odd scattered spot to covers, dust-jacket, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corners with neat and expert repairs and restoration with 1" portion at foot of spine supplied in excellent facsimile, some light rubbing to extremities, but in effect an excellent example, [Fenwick A7a], 8vo, 1939.
⁂ Orwell's bleak satire on the state of the English home counties and the impending war. Among the most difficult of his titles to find in dust-jacket.
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