ORWELL (GEORGE)


The Road to Wigan Pier, FIRST PUBLIC EDITION, half-title, 32 photographic illustrations on 16 sheets, publisher's blue cloth, yellow lettering on spine, yellow dust-jacket (spine and upper cover dust-soiled, slightly frayed at upper margins, neatly strengthened on verso) [Fenwick A.5b], 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1937
|THE RARE FIRST "PUBLIC" EDITION OF WIGAN PIER IN THE VERY SCARCE DUST-JACKET. "The book was... published on 8 March 1937 in both a Left Book Club edition and a public edition" (Fenwick). The Left Book Club edition was issued in a limp orange cloth, priced 2s 6d, in an edition of 44,150 copies whilst the public edition was issued in cloth with a dust-jacket, priced at 10s 6d., in a print run of only 2,150 copies.Provenance: Private collector, resident of Wigan.