Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$12.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
George Orwell. Facsimile Dust Jacket ONLY Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: For sale is a brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket for the 1st UK Edition of Animal Farm by George Orwell. No book is included in this listing, however we may have the original book available for sale in our store under a different listing. Please view our other facsimile dust jackets being offered for sale. All jackets come in a brand new brodart mylar protective sleeve. We offer the highest quality and least expensive facsimile (reproduction) dust jackets currently available anywhere. Our jackets are beautifully crafted by a graphic design expert. These dust jackets are offered for research, archival, and preservation purposes. All jackets are labeled as facsimiles on the front or rear flap. Funding to be used for future acquisition and preservation of dust jacket art. Please check back often, as we plan on adding new jackets weekly.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$27.09 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$27.09 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated with type specimens etc. Beige cloth, decorated in blue, titled in red, typographic dust-jacket (a little soiled). A very good to fine copy of a classic work, printed at the Curwen Press and subsequently reprinted many times. Roger Senhouse's copy, with his ownership signature. Roger Henry Pocklington Senhouse (1899 -1970) was an English publisher and translator, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers, intellectuals, and artists. The private letters of openly gay writer Lytton Strachey reveal that Roger Senhouse was his last lover, with whom he had a relationship in the early 1930s. In 1935, Senhouse became co-owner with Fredric Warburg of the publishing house which became Secker & Warburg, rescuing it from receivership. The firm translated several works by the French novelist Colette and The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir. It also published major writers and works of the era including George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, Theodore Roethke, Alberto Moravia, Günter Grass, Angus Wilson, and Melvyn Bragg.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$166.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second printing August 1945. Cover is faded on edges. Book intact.
Seller: Chapter Two (Chesham), Chesham, United Kingdom
George Orwell. Animal Farm, first edition, second impression, 1945. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of the 1945 second impression, slight fading at the spine ends and top edge, titles bright, binding firm, light foxing to text block edges, contents clean throughout. Inscriptions to front free end paper. A very good copy.
Seller: Berrishill Books, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. A fairy AStory. Secker & Warburg London, 1945.
Price: US$231.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 91 S.; Oln.; Papier etwas nachgedunkelt; Bindung gelockert; Rücken nachgedunkelt; Vorsatz Eigentümernachweis der Zeit; ansonsten guter Zustand; EA (First Published August 1945 Reprinted August 1945)
Seller: Antiquariat Heininger, Hamdorf, SH, Germany
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. no Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Orwell, George (Pseudonym of Eric Blair). ANIMAL FARM. Custom Clamshell Case Only. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. Unique Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First British Edition, crafted in fine Black NUBA with both Olive & Grey cloth inset panels on either side, gilt-stamped title-piece with bi-color inset on spine panel, finished in smooth Black velour on the interior. A well crafted, elegant protective clamshell for an important book. (book definitely not included.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Second edition (2nd Edition), Printed in the same month and same year as the First Edition (August 1945). Octavo. Green cloth covered boards with white lettering on the spine.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
George Orwell. Animal Farm. Secker and Warburg, UK, 1945.
Price: US$372.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 2nd Imp 1945. In the same format as the 1st edition in the same month. Book is near very good and quite bright. Spine tips lightened. Contents good. Pages age toned. Small name and newspaper clipping to endpaper. The wrapper is just about good with loss to spine tips. Edges quite rubbed, creased and nicked. Age toning to white rear. A number of small closed tears to edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18615
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
George Orwell. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the second printing of Orwell's greatest exploration into allegory as it follows anthropomorphic farm animals rebelling against their human owner hoping to create a equal, classless society but the revolution is eventually betrayed under the dictatorship of a Pig named "Napoleon". Animal Farm was placed at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels and alongside Orwell's 1984 has cemented him as one of the most revered and celebrated authors of the 20th century. Very Good Condition. Gray and green dust jacket over green cloth with white lettering to spine. Previous owner's gift inscription to front free end paper. Binding is firm and pages are clean, except page 22 that has a very minor smudge. Boards have minor shelf-wear and are clean with only tanning to spine ends. Price clipped jacket has slight wear with only minor areas of loss. Minor chipping to spine ends, small tear approx 1cm to front panel bottom edge, and a slightly larger closed tear to spine head and rear panel joint (approx 1 inch). Otherwise jacket is in a very good condition. Dust jacket is protected with a brodart covering.
Seller: Hewett's Books, Liverpool, United Kingdom
George Orwell. Animal Farm. Secker and Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark green cloth, white titles to spine, price-clipped dust jacket. States Second Edition to inner flap, but 1st edition 2nd impression. 'First published August 1945. Reprinted August 1945' stated on copyright page. Book very good with light tanning to pages. Small areas of fading to top and bottom of spine. Paper torn in small patches along rear inner hinge. Dustjacket with losses from top and bottom and back edge of spine, rubbing along front edge, spine edges. Dj now in removable plastic sleeve. Size: 7.5 x 5 inches / 19 x 13 cm. 92 pages. Weight: 135g
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Orwell, George. Animal Farm A Fairy Story. Secker & Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine second printing, same month as the first printing, in a very good dust jacket with a one inch tear on the front panel. Previous owner's name and date on front free end paper. Tape on inside of dj.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Animal Farm. Secker and Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$667.04 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Slim green cloth hard cover with bright white titles on spine and no cover wear apart from small area of fading (brown) at lower spine end. Inside front front cover previous owner's discrete signature, 92 clean pages, no spotting or browning. Unclipped dust jacket, price 6s., has only very minor edge wear, but small 2cm tear at lower spine end, otherwise very good. First reprint published in August 1945 the same month as the first printing this book is in near fine condition with very good dust jacket.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
George Orwell. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, second printing with "Reprinted August 1945" on the copyright page. In its scarce original dust jacket. Measuring approximately 7.5" x 5", with 91 numbered pages. This book is in very good minus condition. Sunfading to the spine. Minor staining to the boards. Dust jacket is in good plus condition. Moderate chipping to the spine ends and extremities. "Animal Farm" tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer in the hope to create a better world - where they are equal, free, and happy. According to the author, this novel reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N6-97).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A fine second edition published in the same month, August, 1945, as the first printing, in a very good dust jacket with the original price of 6s still visible on the front flap of the jacket, small triangular piece is loose at left top of front dj. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Jacket states second edition.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second edition, Reprinted August 1945 stated on copyright page. Book fine, minimal rubbing at corners and spine ends. In fine facsimile dust jacket.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
ORWELL, George. Animal Farm. Secker and Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Duodecimo. 5 x 4.5 in. 91, [1]. Good in the original green cloth boards with sun-fading along the top edges and the spine. The binding is firm and the text has a spot or two of foxing in the last five pages, but otherwise remains clean. A true first printing of one of Orwell's most important works, "First Published May 1945."
Seller: Bagatelle Books, IOBA, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second UK edition, Reprinted August 1945 stated on copyright page. Book very good, piece of front free end paper at upper left stuck to front paste-down, some tanning along spine. some soiling to rear panel. Dust jacket very good, price-clipped, some wear, tape at top of upper spine on inside.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm', UK first edition, beautifully rebound. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$3206.90 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: George Orwell (1945) Animal Farm, UK first edition, first printing, published by Secker and Warburg. Beutifully rebound in quarter-vellum over marbled paper boards. Housed in a stylish slipcase covered in the same marbled paper as the boards of the book. Title and authors name stamped in gild to the spine. Condition: presents in fine condition with usual toning to the cheap war economy paper. The page block has been left original without gilding. The endpapers have also been preserved. A simple yet beautiful and stylish rebind of one of the landmark books of 20th century fiction, frequntly named in the top 100 lists. The first edition print run consisted of 4,500 copies only. First and Fine
Seller: First and Fine, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg 1945, London, 1945.
Price: US$3206.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 92 pp., Recently rebound in beautiful full dark green morocco with gilt lettering and lines. Top edge gilt. Small stain to the final leaf and faint water staining to the tail, not affecting the text. Otherwise internally clean with no ownership marks. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$8017.26 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: George Orwell (alias Eric Arthur Blair) (1945) Animal Farm, UK first edition, first printing, published by Secker & Warburg, in the original, unrestored first issue dust jacket with Searchlight printed in red on the reverse of the jacket. Condition: the book is in near fine condition with no previous owners scribbles, no stamps, no bookplates. Repriced in pink pencil on the ffep. The boards are clean and square with the green colour unfaded bar the spine tips corresponding to the small chipped areas of the wrapper, and a small area to the top front board where the dust jacket was folded over. The dust jacket is the original first issue wrapper and has NOT been restored in any way. It is in very good condition with only small chips to the fold ends as shown. Light soiling to the back panel. The spine is rubbed. The front panel has a closed tear above the N of the title. The flaps are clean and complete with the 6 S. price present as called for. The reverse is nice with the red train and Searchlight Books printed in red(there is also a blue variant with no priority). A very nice specimen with the scarce original dust jacket. Animal Farm, a landmark book of dystopian fiction. Its publication was delayed since the Allies needed Stalin in the war effort against the Nazis and the UK did not want to offend Uncle Joe with this mocking satire of Soviet authoritarian rule. One of only 4,500 true first edition copies with the original dust jacket (most copies do not retain the fragile wrapper anymore). The American version of the book had a colossal 50,000 print run and was issued in 1946. Within four years of publication already half a million copies were sold. First and Fine
Seller: First and Fine, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine lettered in white. Very Good with vertical creases to the boards, fading to top of spine cloth, set of staple punctures to front free endpaper and toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with the Searchlight Books advert printed in red on the verso; chip to crown and light wear at extremities, but overall a much nicer than average survival of the jacket. A lovely copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$9000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine first edition; "first published" date on copyright page matches date on title page. Light tanning on board edges, very minimal browning on top edge of board. Bookseller's stamp on rear free endpaper. In very good dust jacket with original price, 6s., on front flap. Wear and chipping at head and tail of spine, tiny closed tears on bottom front cover and top back cover. Housed in custom-made slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Martin Secker, London, 1945.
Price: US$9000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 91, 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The most celebrated political satire of the Twentieth Century. An attractive copy of the greatest of postwar political satires. Original cloth. Fine copy in bright, very good dust jacket with tiny cosmetic repair to front panel of dust jacket, spine panel deftly repaired. Small ink note on front flyleaf. Boxed
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story.. Secker & Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Orwell's timeless allegorical novelâ" a scathing satire on a downtrodden societyâs blind march towards totalitarianism - with "First Published May 1945" on the copyright page. Fenwick A.10a. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket with the 6s price to front flap, "Searchlight Booksâ"each 2s net" and the train engine printed in blue on verso. Bookplate. "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 is [Orwells] masterpiece" (Connolly 93). Time Magazine chose it as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996, and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
George Orwell. Animal Farm (First Printing). Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$9614.30 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression, in the scarce dustwrapper - an excellent example of a fragile book. Orwell's socio-political classic, in which his stated purpose was 'to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole'. Near Fine+: firm and square binding in sharp and clean green cloth; tiny mark to the lower board and a narrow strip of fading to the extreme spine tips; bright white lettering to the spine; original owner's signature and three-word inscription to the ffep, dated 20 August 1945, else bright, crisp and clean throughout. The clipped dustwrapper is Very Good: original and unrestored; vibrant, unfaded colours; small chips to the spine tips, corners and bottom-edge of the front panel; rubbed to the folds; some dustiness and localised browning to the rear panel; produced to wartime production standards, a Searchlight Books train design (in red) is present to the verso, as called for; presented in a removable, archival-quality protective cover. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.
Seller: Bradhurst Fine Editions, Framlingham, United Kingdom
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Secker and Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$11224.16 + shipping
Description: (Secker & Warburg May 1945). First UK Edition in first issue dustwrapper priced 6s. to the front flap. Publisher's original green cloth with spine lettered in white. Boards exceptionally bright, clean and un-faded apart from a slither of fading to the tip and tail of the spine matching light chipping to the dustwrapper. Overall a lovely near fine copy with no former owner's inscriptions. The dustwrapper is a VG+ example with a 3 cm tear to the top of the front panel (which has been neatly stabilised to the verso by a skilled paper conservationist) and a couple of other short, closed tears to the top edge. There is minor, shallow chipping to the tip and tail of the spine (not affecting the lettering) and the usual rubbing to the edges of the spine (often seen with this title). Unusually the dustwrapper is not printed on the customary Search Searchlight books paper to the verso. However, for the avoidance of doubt, we can confirm that this dustwrapper and book have clearly been together since the book was published (as the miniscule fading to the spine tips matches perfectly the light chipping to the dustwrapper). Secondly the dustwrapper is definitely NOT from a Second Edition as there is no mention of Second Edition to the front flap (and there is no tell-tale erasure had it been there in the first place). What differentiates this copy is how clean the back cover is. Rest assured there has been no restoration to the miniscule chips to the dustwrapper which is as natural as you would hope to find. The first edition of Animal Farm (4,500 copies) was delayed from May to August 1945 and was an immediate success. One of the most important books of the last century and widely perceived as George Orwells masterpiece allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
GEORGE ORWELL. ANIMAL FARM. SECKER & WARBURG, 1945.
Price: US$12695.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First State, First Edition, First Printing: A near fine book with a beautiful scarce near fine FIRST STATE dust jacket. The dust jacket has the requisite “An Early List for 1945” to the rear panel with the “Search light” motif to the reverse of the jacket. Crisp, clean book. The book is in near fine condition with crisp, bright and clean green cloth boards with strong unfaded white titles to the spine. The boards have sharp corners, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with no owner names, no inscriptions, no bookplates and no bookstore stamps. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no age toning, no stains, no marks, no writing, no bent pages and no foxing. Beautiful clean book internally appearing as unread. Please see images. The preferred first edition, first state dust jacket has benefited from very slight restoration by an expert paper conservator and as such presents in near fine condition. The Animal Farm jacket is known to be extremely fragile, and usually in pieces or missing altogether. This jacket has strong vibrant colors with no rips, no chips, no edgewear, no stains, no fading, no rubbing and no foxing. The jacket is NOT price clipped, and has a stated price of 6s. net. The reverse of the jacket has the “Search Light” motif in red as required for the first state of the first edition jacket (this motif can be either in red or blue). A lovely unclipped dust jacket! Please see detailed images. A remarkable crisp, clean copy of this title with an original rare striking jacket in the scarce first state. Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. But more generally, Animal Farm stands for any human society, be it capitalist, socialist, fascist, or communist. “Napoleon”, the pig who attains complete power, convinces the other animals that they are better off without human rule, then Napoleon forms his own government rule and as their new leader forces the laborers to work harder for less food then the humans ever did. The entire novel is a metaphor for governmental systems especially the generic form of communism and socialism. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi and Fantasy listings.
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.
GEORGE ORWELL. ANIMAL FARM. SECKER & WARBURG, 1945.
Price: US$14195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First State, First Edition, First Printing A superb near fine book with a beautiful scarce near fine first state dust jacket. The dust jacket has the requisite “An Early List for 1945” to the rear panel with the “Search light” motif to the reverse of the jacket. Crisp, clean book. The book is in fine/near fine condition with crisp, bright and clean green cloth boards with strong unfaded white titles to the spine. The boards have sharp corners with one tiny tip bump, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with no owner names, no inscriptions, no bookplates and no bookstore stamps. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no age toning, no stains, no marks, no writing, no bent pages and no foxing. Beautiful clean book internally appearing as unread. Please see images. The preferred first edition, first state dust jacket has benefited from very slight restoration to the spine tips by an expert paper conservator and as such presents in near fine condition. The Animal Farm jacket is known to be extremely fragile, and usually in pieces or missing altogether. This jacket has strong vibrant colors with no rips, no chips, no edgewear, no stains, no fading, no rubbing and no foxing. The jacket is NOT price clipped, and has a stated price of 6s. net. The reverse of the jacket has the “Search Light” motif in red as required for the first state of the first edition jacket (this motif can be either in red or blue). A lovely unclipped dust jacket! Please see detailed images. A remarkable crisp, clean copy of this title with an original rare striking jacket in the scarce first state. **Please note, a copy in similar condition recently auctioned on Christie’s for $17,000.00 Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. But more generally, Animal Farm stands for any human society, be it capitalist, socialist, fascist, or communist. “Napoleon”, the pig who attains complete power, convinces the other animals that they are better off without human rule, then Napoleon forms his own government rule and as their new leader forces the laborers to work harder for less food then the humans ever did. The entire novel is a metaphor for governmental systems especially the generic form of communism and socialism.
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.
ORWELL, George.. Animal Farm.. London Secker and Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$15125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to half-title and endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, titles to spine in white, minor browning to head and tail of spine, with the unclipped dust-jacket on the red printed Searchlight Books blank, short closed tear to top edge of front panel, rear panel slightly soiled, minor edge-wear, some rubbing to spine (as usual), else an attractive example. The first edition of Orwell's socio-political classic, intended by the author to serve as a satirical take on the events that led up to the Russian Revolution and Stalinism whilst simultaneously illustrating the weaknesses inherent in the human condition that make any political and economic ideal almost unworkable. As the author states himself in his 1946 essay Why I Write, the motivation behind Animal Farm was 'to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole'. Examples in this condition are of the utmost scarcity. The jackets for the entire edition were printed on the porous side of recycled wrappers, due to paper supply regulations in the UK during World War II. As a consequence they are extremely prone to rubbing and chaffing. The book was banned in the Soviet Russia for obvious reasons, however it is interesting to note that printers were discouraged from printing it in the United Kingdom during the second world war as it was thought it might provoke their Soviet allies. The book was also banned in the United Arab Emirates in 2012 for 'un-Islamic' values and North Korea which is unsurprising given that the book questions authoritarian leadership.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
ORWELL, George.. Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.. Secker & Warburg, London., 1945.
Price: US$16034.52 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 92 pages. One of the key books of twentieth century English literature and of political satire of any period. Fading to extreme head and tail of spine. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with rubbing to the spine. Seldom seen in such fresh condition.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
ORWELL, George.. Animal Farm.. London Secker and Warburg, 1945.
Price: US$18150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, titles to spine in white, with endpapers, tiny strip of fading to cloth at foot of spine, with the price-clipped dust-jacket on the blue printed Searchlight Books blank, minor edge-wear, merest trace of rubbing to spine; an exceptional copy, scarce thus. The first edition of Orwell's socio-political classic, intended by the author to serve as a satirical take on the events that led up to the Russian Revolution and Stalinism whilst simultaneously illustrating the weaknesses inherent in the human condition that make any political and economic ideal almost unworkable. As the author states himself in his 1946 essay Why I Write, the motivation behind Animal Farm was 'to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole'. Examples in this condition are of the utmost scarcity. The jackets for the entire edition were printed on the porous side of recycled wrappers, due to paper supply regulations in the UK during World War II. As a consequence they are extremely prone to rubbing and chaffing. The book was banned in the Soviet Russia for obvious reasons, however it is interesting to note that printers were discouraged from printing it in the United Kingdom during the second world war as it was thought it might provoke their Soviet allies. The book was also banned in the United Arab Emirates in 2012 for 'un-Islamic' values and North Korea which is unsurprising given that the book questions authoritarian leadership.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
George Orwell. Animal Farm. Secker & Warburg, London, 1945.
Price: US$21165.57 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A fine book, bound in green cloth boards with white lettering to the spine. The boards are in lovely condition, free of any bumping to the corners, or pushing to the spine tips. There is a tiny strip of fading to the spine tip, but overall, the boards are very clean and fresh. Internally, the pages are extremely clean, with no toning or foxing to the page block or to the inner text. There is a small name present to the middle of the front paste down. The dust wrapper is also in fine condition. with no tears or chipping. There is shallow rubbing to the spine tip, with a little rubbing to the spine fold. A very crisp dust wrapper with the publisher's printed price of 6s. present to the front flap. There is the red searchlight advertisement to the verso of the dust wrapper confirming first edition status. An outstanding copy of a very fragile book, published to war time economy standards with an estimated print run of around 4000 copies.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom