After demanding alterations, Harpers were prepared to publish it in the United States, where it made its debut in 1934. Heinemann and Cape turned it down for the same reasons. Gollancz, smarting from fears of prosecution from another author's work, turned it down because he was worried about charges of libel. By December 1933 he had typed the final version, and in 1934 he delivered it to his agent Leonard Moore for publication by Victor Gollancz, who had published his previous book. He was still working on it in 1932 at Southwold while doing up the family home in the summer holidays. Orwell was drafting it in Paris during the time he spent there from 1928 to 1929. Burmese Days was several years in the writing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In gratitude, thereafter Orwell presented Mabel with signed copies of all his published works.ÂMabel Fierz, authorial inscription, typed letter signed by Mabel's son Adrian Fierz loosely inserted. Instead she took it in person to Moore who in turn took it to Gollancz. On one such occasion, Orwell gave Mabel the manuscript, which had just been rejected by Faber, and telling her to save only the paperclips, said she should throw it away. After first meeting Orwell in Southwold, Suffolk, Mabel and her husband Francis became close friends with the writer and often invited him to stay at their house in Golders Green. Octavo, original cloth.ÂPresentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper to Mabel Fierz, 'With very best wishes from Eric Blair.' It was Mabel Fierz who introduced Orwell to Leonard Moore (who would later become his literary agent) after salvaging the manuscript forÂDown and OutÂfrom the writer's discarded papers. First American edition and true first preceding the British edition by one year of Orwell's first novel.

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