this is a Vintage Paperback, " Keep the Aspidistra Flying" by George Orwell.   Published 1968.

This is the Harbrace Paperbound Library # 38 version, published by Harcourt Brace & World.                Cover design by Paul Bacon Studio.....image of man holding a book, a woman and a plant on window sill on blue background.

$2.45 cover price.  

(Orwell tells the story of Gordon Comstock, a poor young man who works by day in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the "money word" of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symboloized for him by the homely, indestructible potted aspidistra that stands in every middle-class British window

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these are not stock photos....

VG-    interior pages are clean and bright.     break in the binding around page 112... pages could come loose.     reading creases at spine.   scuffing by spine and right edge

I will package securely and ship via the US Post office and add tracking.   international can be first class.