PRIESTLEY, J. B.
Angel Pavement …
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930.
Large 8vo, pp. [viii], xiv, 613, [1], with a frontispiece portrait; a fine copy, untrimmed, fore-edge partly uncut, top edge gilt; in the publisher’s tan cloth.
First edition, the deluxe issue, no. 308 of 1025 copies signed by the author.
Following on the success of The Good Companions (1929), Angel Pavement was set in a fictional East London against the unemployment and economic insecurity of the late twenties. Orwell was scathing, calling it ‘an excellent holiday novel’.
