Whilst the list of books issued in the Uniform Edition often includes Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant' there was no issue of that title in a Denis Piper dustwrapper this is the complete set of Denis Piper's work for the Edition. Save for a pair of unobtrusive tape-shadows to the endpapers of 'A Clergyman's Daughter' all are free of previous owner's names, annotations or other faults, a detailed condition description of the individual volumes will be supplied on request.
These eleven copies were issued to the trade, none of the wrappers are price-clipped and all eleven volumes are in very good to near-Fine condition. Whilst some copies with the Piper-designed wrappers went to the trade, the majority were issued to schools and public libraries and unmarked examples in good condition are scarce. Good examples of the individual volumes are hard to find and complete sets of all eleven volumes are very rarely encountered. The bulk of the Uniform Edition was issued in the publisher's generic green and white wrappers, however, between 19 Secker periodically issued those same volumes in these striking Denis Piper-designed dustwrappers. The complete set of Secker & Warburg's Uniform Edition issued with the variant dustwrappers designed by Denis Piper. Rare in the dustjacket, seldom appearing in presentable condition in the trade and offered less than a handful of times in 30 years according to the auction record, those being restored with tape residue on verso. The book sold poorly in the U.S., perhaps owing to the fact American audiences in the midst of the Depression did not want a reminder of life on the down-and-out. The American edition was published about 6 months following the British, issued in a tiny print run of 1,750 copies, of which 383 were remaindered. Young Eric Blair's first book, a work he was sufficiently ashamed of that he asked Victor Gollancz to issue it under a pseudonym.
Dustjacket is unclipped, sunned at spine and extremities, with edgewear, short tears, and chips to crown and corners 3 inch tear along front flap fold, discreetly and archivally mended in two spots on verso Very Good. Hint of a forward lean, with faint foxing to text edges clean throughout - Near Fine.
Octavo (21.5cm) light purple cloth, with plum-colored stripes and titles stamped in black on spine illustrated endpapers dustjacket 292pp.
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