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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’.

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