ORWELL (George).

Animal Farm.

First American edition. Small 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.

£175.00

A good copy only, jacket price clipped and rather edge worn with substantial loss and creasing to head of spine panel, two unobtrusive tape repairs to verso.

From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.

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