George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) (English, 1903-1950). 3 books. Nineteen Eighty-Four, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949, early printing; Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, first edition, 1950, Sonia Brownell Orwell, with paper dust jacket; The Road to Wigan Pier, Secker & Warburg, London, uniform edition, 1959, with paper dust jacket. All with bumped corners, some fraying to edges, corners and spines, foxing and discoloration to pages; 1984 tear to cloth on spine, stains to front board, original owner's name in pencil on front endpaper; Shooting an Elephant some tears and losses to dust jacket; Wigan Pier tears and losses to dust jacket.

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