"No parable written since Gulliver's Travels is equal in profundity and mordant satire to Animal Farm."

Arthur Koestler

ORWELL, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. 

First edition, in rare dust jacket. Book near-fine, dust jacket with some soiling to rear panel, light chipping to spine ends and folds. An excellent copy of a notoriously fragile book.  

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