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ORWELL (GEORGE) Animal Farm. A Fairy Story, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with 'May, 1945' on copyright page), Secker & Warburg, 1945 image 1
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ORWELL (GEORGE) Animal Farm. A Fairy Story, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with 'May, 1945' on copyright page), Secker & Warburg, 1945 image 4
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ORWELL (GEORGE)
Animal Farm. A Fairy Story, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Secker & Warburg, 1945

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29 March 2023, 13:00 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, lettered in white on spine, dust-jacket printed in grey and green with white text, with "Searchlight Books—each 2s net" and train engine printed in red on inside of jacket [Fenwick A10a; Connolly 93], FINE COPY, 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1945

Footnotes

Provenance: Estate of Ian Angus (1926-2022). Angus co-edited, with Sonia Orwell Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters of George Orwell, 1968, and assisted Peter Davison in editing the 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell. He was also instrumental in establishing the Orwell Archive at the University of London. His pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper.

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Old pencil 3-line gift inscription erased from title-page leaving light indentation

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