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ORWELL (GEORGE) Burmese Days, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ("George Orwell") on the reverse of the half-title, New York, Harper & Bros., 1934
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ORWELL (GEORGE)
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RARE SIGNED COPY OF ORWELL'S SECOND PUBLISHED BOOK, HIS FIRST NOVEL. Having been rejected by Gollancz, Heinemann and Cape, Burmese Days was published on 25 October 1934 by Harper's in New York in an edition of 2,000 copies. "In his literary notebooks, Orwell described this as 'the true first edition', as opposed to the first British edition [published by Gollancz in June 1935] which he considered 'a garbled version and should NOT be followed'..." (Fenwick, George Orwell. A Bibliography, 1998, p.21).
Provenance: Estate of Ian Angus (1926-2022). Angus co-edited, with Sonia Orwell Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters of George Orwell, 1968, and assisted Peter Davison in editing the 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell. He was also instrumental in establishing the Orwell Archive at the University of London.
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lower cover with crease/bump in upper fore-corner

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