London: Secker & Warburg, 1941. Second printing. 126pp. Small 8vo. Oatmeal cloth; green spine titles; dust jacket. Boards with light wear and perimeter soiling; minor fraying at spine ends and bottom tips; textblock toned, particularly edges. Price-clipped jacket rather toned, with chipping at spine ends and tips, and weakened hinges. Good to very good in like jacket.
Second printing, issued one month after the first, of Orwell's important book-length essay on English social reform. Published as the first volume in Secker & Warburg's Searchlight Books series, of which Orwell was co-editor. Jacket design by Zec.
