GEORGE ORWELL. — Critical Essays.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First edition (first printing) of the author's first collection of essays. 8vo. 169pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Pink cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and upper board. Some marking to the cloth, mostly impacting the rear board. A very light scattering of near-invisible spotting to the edges and endpapers, and a small area of rust-marking from a now absent paperclip to the front endpaper and adjacent pastedown, alongside the inked details of a contemporary former owner. Printed on slightly substandard wartime economy paperstock, yet still a nice bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel, rubbed at the spine ends with several tiny fractions of loss, with several short tears and light accompanying creases and one area of internal repair. Ten essays, the subjects including Charles Dickens, Donald McGill, Rudyard Kipling, W. B. Yeats, Salvador Dali, Arthur Koestler and P. G. Wodehouse. Fenwick D1., Good, Good