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ORWELL (GEORGE) Coming Up for Air, FIRST EDITION, second impression, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ("George Orwell") on front free endpaper, Victor Gollancz, 1939
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ORWELL (GEORGE)
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COMING UP FOR AIR SIGNED BY ORWELL on the front free endpaper. The first edition was published on 12 June in a run of 2000 copies, with a further 1000 issued later in June "with slight, unintentional differences of slipped type" (Fenwick). The publisher Gollancz had hesitated to publish the book, but Orwell was adamant he would make no alterations to his manuscript, writing to his friend Jack Common on 9 April 1939 that if Gollancz "tries to bugger me abt I think I shall leave him...". In the event the Gollancz accepted the work and, as indicated by the almost immediate need for a reprint, it sold well.

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