Editing Homage to Catalonia (section)

===First edition===
After Orwell had returned to England in 1937, his pitch for the memoir was quickly turned down by his own publisher [[Victor Gollancz]], who worried that its publication might harm the cause of [[anti-fascism]].{{Sfn|Buchanan|2002|p=304}} Orwell concluded that Gollancz was "part of the Communism-racket" and sought out a different publisher;{{Sfn|Buchanan|2002|p=304}}<ref name=":3" /> he was recommended by ILP secretary [[Fenner Brockway]] to [[Frederic Warburg]], a publisher associated with the [[anti-Stalinist left]], who agreed to a contract with Orwell.{{Sfn|Buchanan|2002|p=304}} In September, a deal was signed for an advance of £150 ({{Inflation|UK|150|1938|r=-3|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).<ref name=":0" />{{Sfn|Bowker|2004|p=234}} By January 1938, Orwell had completed the book and, on 25 April 1938, [[Secker & Warburg]] published it under the title ''Homage to Catalonia''. Orwell remarked to [[Jack Common]] that they had not been able to think of a better title.{{Sfn|Buchanan|2002|p=304}}

The book was initially commercially unsuccessful, selling only 683 copies (out of 1,500) in its first 6 months, with many copies of its initial print run remaining unsold at the time of Orwell's death in 1950.{{Sfn|Buchanan|2002|p=302}} Orwell himself had wondered if the book had been [[boycott]]ed by the British press,{{Sfn|Buchanan|2002|pp=304-305}} while publisher [[Fredric Warburg]] himself believed that the book had been "ignored and hectored into failure".{{Sfn|Buchanan|2002|p=308}} "Ten years ago it was almost impossible to get anything printed in favour of Communism; today it is almost impossible to get anything printed in favour of Anarchism or '[[Trotskyism]]'," Orwell wrote bitterly in 1938.{{Sfn|Bowker|2004|p=230}}