1948 and 1984. (The Second Orwell Memorial Lecture) - with printer's corrected proofs

Julian SYMONS

Published by Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1984

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Pale green wrappers. Edition limited to 135 numbered copies. With the printer's page proofs, 28 leaves, printed rectos only, all present except title-page verso (copyright page) and limitation page, six pages with Alan Anderson's manuscript corrections; in blue card wrapper hand-titled by him and inscribed "Proof sheets". Lecture delivered at London University, 25 February 1984. "Such an extremity of pessimism [in Nineteen Eighty-Four] suggests some weaknesses of the book," writes Symons. "'I ballsed it up rather, partly owing to being so ill while I was writing it, but I think some of the ideas in it might interest you,' he wrote to me shortly before publication . . . It's the intensity with which Orwell felt that gives the book its terrible grandeur. So far from being ballsed up because he was so ill, it would be nearer the truth to say that the awful vision of a hopeless world could only have been produced by a sick man.". Seller Inventory # 32M100492

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Title: 1948 and 1984. (The Second Orwell Memorial ...

Publisher: Edinburgh: Tragara Press

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition