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ORWELL (GEORGE) Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Secker & Warburg, 1945 image 1
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ORWELL (GEORGE)
Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, dj, 1945

10 – 20 March 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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ORWELL (GEORGE)

Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'May, 1945' on copyright page, publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in white (spine tips and extreme horizontal edges faded), green and white dust-jacket with front flap priced '6s' and 'Searchlight Books' design on verso, 2 small abrasions to upper cover, spine frayed with small loss at tips (just touching letter "A" of "Animal"), toning to covers [Connolly 93], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1945

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