Burmese Days.
ORWELL George (1934.)
£1500.00 [First Edition]
Available to view at our Curzon Street shop.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, patterned endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. New York, Harper and Brothers.
The true first edition of Orwell's first published novel, preceding the British edition by a year. Set in Burma during the waning years of the British Empire, the novel stands as a 'portrait of the dark side of the British Raj'.
Spine very slightly faded, some trivial wear to extremities, notwithstanding a very good copy indeed.
Stock Code: 249623
