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…

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