Pick of the Week: Orwell classic hammered down and out of saleroom at £46,000
Complete with slightly frayed and browned but rarely seen jacket, a 1933 copy of George Orwell’s 'Down and Out in Paris and London' was bid to £46,000 by James Hall of Lucius Books in York at a Dominic Winter sale.
In doing so, it made one Yorkshire cricket lover a very happy man.
The vendor had thought it migh…