Animal Farm George Orwell 1st Ed 1st State Jacket NICE! Start Price USD 3,500.00 Current Price USD 3,500.00 Time Left 20 days 16 hours Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 23, 2008 End Time Monday, December 22, 2008 Location Sean Fagan, Rare Books See more about 'Animal Farm George Orwell 1st Ed 1st State Jacket NICE!' Description   About Us       Contact Us       Shipping Terms & Return Policy        Bargain Bin       Newly Listed       We Buy Books     Make an offer. We are clearing out the shop and warehouse.  Over 10,000 fresh books coming to market in the next few months.  We need space and we will accept reasonable offers on all books.    Browse These Books Too  Sets & Leather Bindings  First Editions & Classics  Civil War  American History  General History  Travels & Places Illustrated & Children's Books New York State History  Philosophy  Art & Sculpture  Architecture  Gardening & Nature  Science and Mathematics  Hunting & Fishing  Rare & Unusual Books  Miscellaneous  Poetry  Religion                 Author Name:   Orwell, GeorgeTitle:    Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Binding:   HardcoverBook Condition:   Near Fine/Very Good Edition:   First EditionPublisher:   London Secker and Warburg 1945Seller ID:   INTERLOC022828 Small Octavo, 92 pp., Dust Jacket is wrapped in a fresh Mylar protective sleeve. Old name in ink. Small chips and tears to jacket spine. First Published May 1945. First edition, first issue with May 1945 stated. First issue dust jacket that has not been price clipped as this title often is. Original full green cloth with white lettering in a green and grey dustwrapper. Has the train illustration in red on verso of jacket and titles priced price 2/-. Has green advertisement for publishers books on rear panel. Better than usually seen. This is George Orwell's masterpiece and one of the most skillful novels of the twentieth century, which the author said "was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole." Animal Farm is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based major events in the book on ones from the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. First Edition First Editions Modern Firsts Created by eBay Blackthorne ver. 3.2.146.0 Place a Bid!