Wigan Pier on the road to saleroom courtesy of a Wigan consigner
Two first-edition versions of George Orwell’s 'The Road to Wigan Pier', the first part of which is an investigation into the working-class living conditions in Lancashire, Yorkshire and the industrial north, were published in 1937.
Much the largest of them was that issued for the Left Book Club, whose 44,150 copies came in a lim…