A Clergyman's Daughter
Gollancz, 1935.
First edition. Original black cloth in scarce yellow dustwrapper, printed in pink and black. A fine copy, in the exceptionally scarce dustwrapper which has restoration to the top two inches of the spine, and a repaired tear to the rear fold, but is otherwise bright and crisp.
Orwell's second novel, into which he injected "some experimental writing possibly in the manner of James Joyce's Ulysses" (Colls). Though Orwell thought little of the book as a whole, he wrote to Henry Miller in August the next year saying "that book is bollox, but I made some experiments in it that were useful to me."
One of only 2,000 books, it is exceedingly rare in the dustwrapper, with Fenwick tracing only one institutional example. This is the only copy offered with the dustwrapper in commerce in recent decades.
PROVENANCE: The file copy from the Gollancz archive, with some relevant notation to the dustwrapper and front free endpaper in pencil, with the number 35 in ink the the bottom corner of the lower panel.
Fenwick A.3a
Stock ID: 37340
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