Coming Up For Air

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Lot 92 | Coming Up For Air
Coming Up For Air

George Orwell

ORWELL, George (1903-1950). Coming Up For Air. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939.



First edition in the rare dust-jacket of the novel Orwell considered to be his best. In December 1937, Orwell expressed to his literary agent, Leonard Moore (1876-1959), that he wanted to write a new novel: 'It will not be about politics [...] it will be about a man who is having a holiday and trying to make a temporary escape from his responsibilities, public and private.' It occupies a transitional space in Orwell's bibliography, between the realism of his novels of the 1930s and the concerns of later works such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. Orwell wrote this novel whilst in Marrakech after having spent a period of time in a sanitarium. Fenwick A.7a.



Octavo. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, titles to spine in blue (some minor spotting to fore-edge, spine slightly rolled); original dust-jacket with publisher's geometric motif printed in pink (slight nicks at corners, head of spine a little frayed, somewhat darkened).

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