ORWELL, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Victor Gollancz. 1937.
8vo. Limp orange cloth lettered in black to front cover and spine; pp. xxiv, 264, with sixteen pages of photographic plates; a little soiling and general wear to cloth, a little cocked with slight creasing to spine, light toning and spotting to edges of textblock; very good.
First edition, first impression.
This Left Book Club edition, one of 44,150 copies issued for members in early 1937, preceded the first trade edition, issued in March the same year with a variant binding and lacking Victor Gollancz's foreword (critical of the book, but appreciated by the author).
Orwell's great polemical account of working-class life in industrial Yorkshire and Lancashire has never been out of print and has lost none of its political bite in the intervening years.
Fenwick A5a
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