Animal Farm 1ST EDITION 1st Printing ORWELL 1946 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984

Octavo, original full bound black cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. First American Edition, First Printing of Animal Farm, Orwells timeless allegorical novel a scathing satire on a downtrodden societys blind march towards totalitarianism. An exceptionally well-preserved example in its Original Dust Jacket.

"A political fable that partly recounts, in an allegorical mode, the aftermath of the Russian revolution, and partly illustrates a belief in the universal tendency of power to corrupt" (Stringer, 22). " Animal Farm is [Orwells] masterpiece" (Connolly 93). Original full-bound black cloth boards present well with front clean and rear presenting with only a few light stains, the largest about one-inch in diameter. Moderate rubbing to corners and head and foot of spine with a bit of loss.

Gilt title to spine well-retained with publisher exhibiting partial loss. Text blocks unmarked with a tiny bit of spotting to top. Internally mostly clean and bright. Name and address penned to front pastedown and name with notes penciled opposite to front endpaper. A few small blue stains near gutter of same.

46 with some deterioration to same and to opposite page. Dust Jacket presents fairly well. Panels present partially clean with some scattered stains and marks throughout. Heavy wear to hinges and creases with significant chipping to corners of same causing loss. Open and closed tears to edges and creases.

Chipping to head and foot of spine with loss. Toning to rear panel with several red stains. A bit of toning to flaps and bookstore price sticker to front. A classic work considered by many to be amongst the best, including The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, Call It Sleep by Henry Roth, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, A Death in the Family by James Agee, The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen, Deliverance by James Dickey, Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone, Falconer by John Cheever, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, and The Great Gatsby by F. Others include titles such as, A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, Herzog by Saul Bellow, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, A House for Mr. Naipaul, I, Claudius by Robert Graves, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Light in August by William Faulkner, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. Lewis, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Lord of the Rings by J. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, Native Son by Richard Wright, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Even further, those recognize as the best of the best include The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, A Passage to India by E. Forster, Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion, Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, Possession by A. Byatt, The Power and the Glory by Graham Green, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Rabbit, Run by John Updike, Ragtime by E.

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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Language: English
Special Attributes: First Edition
Region: North America
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Topic: Classics
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1946
Original/Facsimile: Original