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ORWELL (GEORGE) Homage to Catalonia, FIRST EDITION, Secker & Warburg, April 1938 image 1
ORWELL (GEORGE) Homage to Catalonia, FIRST EDITION, Secker & Warburg, April 1938 image 2
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ORWELL (GEORGE)
Homage to Catalonia, FIRST EDITION IN DUST-JACKET, April 1938

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ORWELL (GEORGE)

Homage to Catalonia, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust-jacket (unclipped with price "10s.6d. net"), v-shaped piece torn away from front panel with loss of letters "H" and "C", and partial loss of 2 other letters, small losses at corners, head of spine with loss of first 4 letters of "Homage"), [Fenwick A6], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, April 1938

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"Homage to Catalonia was published at the end of April 1938. Orwell was hoping for a good sale... In the event Warburg printed 1500 copies but only sold 800. The remainder were not sold until after Orwell's death" (Gordon Bowker, George Orwell, 2003).

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