Animal Farm.

by ORWELL, George; STEADMAN, Ralph (illus.).

$1,284 · Offered by Biblio

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited,, 1995. First Steadman edition, inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title, "For Robert, from Ralph Steadman, 17 Aug. '95". This special edition was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Orwell's fable and restores Orwell's proposed preface, "The Freedom of the Press", as an appendix. Small quarto. Colour illustrations throughout. Original red boards, spine lettered in black, illustration of mice on front cover in black, newspaper-patterned endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped, faint spots to top edge; jacket unclipped, light creasing and nicks to edges: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.

• Year: 1995
• Binding: hardcover

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