Loss to head of dust jacket spine, some toning and slightly soiled a very good example. The Road to Wigan Pier cemented ideas that would be found in Orwells later works, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in. When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box.Ĭloth slightly darkened at extremities, some other minor marks, some light consistent browning a near-fine and notably fresh copy. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell, 1958, Harcourt Brace edition. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Copies of this seminal work of reportage in this state and condition are not common. Gollancz supplied a foreword to the Left Book Club edition but, in the present copy, Orwell's work stands alone. Fenwick notes that the book was "published on 8 March 1937 in both a Left Book Club edition and a public edition". Orwell originally believed that his book would not be included in Gollancz's Left Book Club as "it is too fragmentary and, on the surface, not very left-wing" (Fenwick).īy 29 December 1936, however, the work was set as a choice for the March 1937 list. 44,150 copies were also issued in the familiar limp orange cloth of the Left Book Club.
First edition, first impression, trade issue, one of 2,150 copies published in the casebound format.
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