ANIMAL FARM

by George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair

$1,250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946 . Small octavo, pp. 1-6 1-2 3-118 119-122: blank , black cloth, spine stamped in gold. First U.S. edition, first printing. ANIMAL FARM, which owes something to Swift and Defoe, is his masterpiece, the best fable in the language with Boxer the cart-horse, the pigs and the donkey becoming household words. - Connolly, The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books 93. 4500 copies printed.

• Printing: first

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