“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”
ORWELL, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. Slim octavo, modern full dark green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. $6500.
First edition, first printing of Orwell’s most famous and widely read work, handsomely bound.
"A political fable that partly recounts, in an allegorical mode, the aftermath of the Russian revolution, and partly illustrates a belief in the universal tendency of power to corrupt" (Stringer, 22). "Animal Farm, which owes something to Swift and Defoe, is [Orwell's] masterpiece" (Connolly 93). With "May 1945" imprint. Fenwick A.10a.
Small stain to last leaf of text, very faint dampstain along bottom margin of text. A handsome copy.