Orwell keeps a red flag flying
Inscribed by George Orwell to the bookseller whose Hampstead shop, Booklovers’ Corner, was for a time his workplace and home, a 1936 first of his third novel, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, made a record £18,000 at Bonhams on March 1.
Orwell, feeling intellectually isolated in his parents’ home town of Southwold on the Suffolk coast,…