ANIMAL FARM: A FAIRY STORY
$1,250 · Offered by Biblio
London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. Second Impression, one of 10,000 copies. Octavo (19cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 91,[1]pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, light wear to extremities, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy, entirely without foxing. In the correct dustjacket, with "Second Edition" printed on front flap; unclipped (priced 6s.), showing modest wear and dust-soil, a few tiny nicks, small tears, and attendant creases, and a small chip at lower front flap fold; Very Good+. "Classic satirical allegory mirroring the failure of the Russian Revoluion to live up to its own ideals; the animals turn out the farmer who exploits them and lay down a set of egalitarian principles to live by, but the pigs (once the opportunist Napoleon has disposed of the idealist Snowball) prove to be the animals who are more equal than the others, and in the end, they have become indistinguishable from the farmers" (Barron, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide 3-276). Fenwick A.10b. 8579.
- Publisher: Secker & Warburg
- Year: 1945
- Binding: unknown
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