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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 308

ORWELL (GEORGE)
Critical Essays, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Tony Powell from Geo. Orwell" on front free endpaper, Secker & Warburg, 1946

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ORWELL (GEORGE)

Critical Essays, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Tony Powell from Geo. Orwell" on front free endpaper, publisher's red cloth, spine faded [Fenwick D1a], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1946

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FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED TO ORWELL'S CLOSE FRIEND ANTHONY POWELL. Orwell began planning the contents of Critical Essays in July 1944, and finished by the following February, with the completion of his essay "In Defence of of P.G. Wodehouse". Orwell considered it one of his most important works, and on publication in February 1946 it met with near universal praise, prompting a second printing of 5500 copies by May.

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