Orwell, George

Down and Out in London and Paris. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1933

8vo 🗹(212 x 136 mm). Half-title, title with publisher's device. Publisher's purple cloth, spine lettered in black with altern♏ating purple stripes, in green pictorial dustjacket, green pictorial endpapers matching the jacket; light soiling to top edge, dustjacket slightly browned at head, some small chips at extremities. In a quarter black morocco slipcase with folding chemise.

First American edition of Orwell's first published book—the famous, semi-autobiographical account of poverty and life on the margins in two of Europe's mos♛t prosperous cities. The book sold poorly in the United States, perhaps due to the D꧃epression. Copies in the dustjacket are scarce.