Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Running title throughout: Confessions of a down and out
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Other authors / contributors: | Harper & Brothers, publisher.
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ISBN: | 015626224X 9780156262248
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Notes: | "First edition F-H"--Verso of title page. "First American edition"--Fenwick. Published 30 June 1933 (1,750 copies); type distributed 13 February 1934. Collation: leaves 204. x 13.9 cm: [unsigned, 1-19⁸]; 152 leaves, pages [6 unnumbered] [1] 2-292 [293-298 (blank)]. Issued in publisher's purple cloth; spine stamped in darker purple and lettered in black; illustrated lining-papers printed in black and medium green on light green. In light green dust jacket to same design as the lining papers; price $2.50 and extracts from English reviews on front flap, author biography on back flap. Fenwick, G. George Orwell, A.1d
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Summary: | The adventures of a penniless British writer who works as a dishwasher in Paris and encounters the disturbing world of street people and charitable shelters in London.
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Other form: | Online version: Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Down and out in Paris and London. New York ; London, Harper & Bros., 1933
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