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The Library of a Deceased Irish Collector
Lot 224

ORWELL (GEORGE)
Animal Farm. A Fairy Story, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Secker & Warburg, 1945

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ORWELL (GEORGE)

Animal Farm. A Fairy Story, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'May, 1945' on copyright page, publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in white (spine tips and extreme top edges faded), dust jacket with front flap priced '6s' and 'Searchlight Books' design on verso (slightly chipped at spine ends and corners, rubbed at folds, lower panel slightly soiled) [Connolly 93], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1945

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Provenance: N. Furlong, small ink ownership signature dated August 1945 on front free endpaper.

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