Coming Up For Air (First American Edition, First Printing) Orwell, George First Edition,Literature

Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1950. 278 pages. First American edition, first printing. One of only 8,000 copies printed in the first American printing. The UK edition of this title precedes the American edition by eleven years. This copy comes from the library of Dr. Willard Thorp, author, noted literary historian, editor and critic who taught at Princeton University for more than 40 years and served as the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University, and co-founded what is now their American Studies Program in 1942. The Thorp Library, at Princeton, was dedicated in 1991, and a namesake scholarship was established in his honor. Dr. Thorp signed this edition in pencil on the upper right corner of the front endpaper, including Princeton, below his signature, and the date, 17.xii'54. As for condition, the book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are sound. Pages and endpapers are clean. The book's flaws are limited to color-fading of cloth on the front and rear panels. Original DJ with $3.00 price intact on flap. DJ shows shallow chiipping along edges with rubbing to extremities and slight age-darkening along rear. Minimal soiling. VG/VG with all flaws noted.