Small octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-118 [119-122: blank], black cloth, spine stamped in gold. "ANIMAL FARM, which owes something to Swift and Defoe, is his masterpiece, the best fable in the language with Boxer the cart-horse, the pigs and the donkey becoming household words." - Connolly, The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books. 93. 4500 copies printed. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-276. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 156. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 228-229. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 45-7]. Lower corner tips bruised, some light spots to the upper front cover, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild rubbing, mostly to edges and lower spine, wear with small chips at head of spine panel and 11 mm closed tear at upper front spine fold. (28850). Seller Inventory # 28850

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Title: ANIMAL FARM

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1946], New York

Publication Date: 1946

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First U.S. edition.

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