12mo, mint green cloth, red titles, 213pp. Fifth printing in total, 1954. Unclipped dust jacket (10s. 6d. net) moderately toned to panels, wear to edges and corners. Bookseller’s ticket, ownership signature and heavy toning to front endpapers, with the impression cleaving to half title page, toning to title page. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The fourth printing of the new, reset edition (1949) of the original 1933 text. Orwell’s first book, a darkly comic memoir of destitution, employment, and incarceration during his youth spent in both Paris and London. Uniform Edition of the works of George Orwell printed by Secker & Warburg. A very good copy in mylar, scarce in such condition.