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Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. [Modern Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.109; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, titles in silver to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket, priced at 10s. 6d. net. Colour frontispiece over two pages, thirty-one in-text line drawings. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Internally fine... More about Animal Farm. A Fairy Story
Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. [Modern Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.109; [1]. Colour frontispiece over two pages, thirty-one in-text line drawings. Elegantly bound in red half calf, gilt-lettered with twin navy morocco title labels, spine in six compartments with raised bands, original cloth sides blocked in... More about Animal Farm. A Fairy Story
Burmese Days.
New York, NY: Harper and Bros., 1934. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vi;371; [3], blank. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in black to spine and upper, floral patterned endpapers, edges untrimmed. Contents clean, page edges toned, short tear and small ink number... More about Burmese Days
The Road to Wigan Pier.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.viii; 264. With 32 black and white photographic plates. Not including the foreword, which appeared in the first Left Book Club edition. In publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original light yellow dust-jacket with titles to... More about The Road to Wigan Pier
Animal Farm.
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946, [Classic satire/fairy tale] US Book Club edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.118; [2], blank. Bound in publisher's green cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper by Art Brenner. Some toning to spine, neat tear to rear; an attractive copy. Identical to the first printing but... More about Animal Farm
England Your England. And other Essays.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1953. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's green cloth, red titles to spine, top edge red, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Top edge stain a little faded, lightly toned to other edges. Textblock clean with just occasional inoffensive pencil... More about England Your England. And other Essays
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