The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell [Complete four volume set]

First American edition of this definitive collection of Orwell's non-fiction and epistolary writings:  Volume 1: An Age Like This 1920-1940; Volume 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943; Volume 3: As I Please 1943-1945; Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950. Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. Four volumes, all firsts. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in. Dark blue cloth boards, gold lettering on spine and gold facsimile signatures on front boards; in dust jackets. Paginated respectively: xxiii, 574; xv, 477; xv, 435; xvii, 555. Frontispiece and rear index to all volumes. Mild toning to textblock edges, else all volumes fine. Unclipped ("$10.00") jackets display varying degrees of edgewear, with closed tears and small portions of loss at spine ends and tips. Larger chips out at spine crowns of vols. 1 and 4. Spines mildly to moderately faded, particularly vols. 1 and 2. About very good on the whole.