Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays -by George Orwell (inc.Nonsense Poetry; A Hanging; How the Poor Die; Reflections on Gandhi; The Common Toad; Books v. Cigarettes; Examination of Gulliver's Travels, etc )

London, England: London, UK: Secker & Warburg, 1950, 1st edition, 2nd Printing , 1950. -----------( 2nd printing of the 1st edition ) ---hardcover, a tidy copy but there is sunning to the spine and to a slim area of the upper edge of the boards, small ink name on front blank endpaper, some age toning/offset to the front blank endpaper ---in an attractive Good dustjacket which is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, some mall chips, rubbing, some short closed tears, the cover design includes a "snake" of colour down the length of the spine, that design feature should be red to match the colour on the "blob" on the front panel of the jacket, the spine has been sunned and has turned that red "snake" to a creay white, ---212 pages, this contains: Shooting an Elephant; A Hanging; How the Poor Die; Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool; Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels; Politics and the English Language; Reflections on Gandhi; Second Thoughts on james Burnham ( "I Write as I Please"; Confessions of a Book reviewer; Books v. Cigarettes; Good Bad Books; Nonsense Poetry; Riding Down from Bangor; The Sporting Spirit; Decline of the English Murder; Some Thoughts on the Common Toad; A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray ), , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and NOT a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// --sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch ) ---. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+ ( see Description )/Good (see description). Illus. by Michael Kennard Cover Design . 5w x 7.5h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.