SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT And Other Essays.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with red titles to the spine, in the Michael Kennard designed dustwrapper. Top edge red. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh with fading to the extreme edges of the boards. The contents, lightly spotted to the closed text block edge, prelims, and very occasionally the margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and creased dustwrapper which has some tiny closed tears to the edges and a 1.5cm closed tear to the foot of the only slightly faded spine. Not price-clipped (10/- on the front flap). The red portion on the spine of this dustjacket is nearly always encountered faded to white, this example retains much of the red colouring and is scarce thus.

A collection of 18 essays, including Shooting An Elephant; A Hanging; How The Poor Die; Lear, Tolstoy And The Fool; Politics vs Literature: An Examination Of Gulliver's Travels; Politics And The English Language; Reflections On Gandhi; The Prevention Of Literature; Second Thoughts On James Burnham; Confessions Of A Book Reviewer; Books vs Cigarettes; Good Bad Books; Nonsense Poetry; Riding Down From Bangor; The Sporting Spirit; Decline Of The English Murder; Some Thoughts On The Common Toad; A Good Word For The Vicar Of Bray. 7,530 copies printed. (Fenwick D.3).