All animals are equal, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

All animals are equal
but some animals are more equal than others
ORWELL, George (1903-1950). Animal Farm. A Fairy Story. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945.

First edition of Orwell's great satire. Animal Farm sprang from Orwell's personal experience of the Soviet communists during the Spanish Civil War. Although written swiftly between November 1943 and February 1944, Animal Farm was not published until 1945. Orwell initially offered the work to Victor Gollancz, to whom he was contracted, but—as Orwell had predicted—Gollancz rejected it on political grounds because it was perceived as too overt a criticism of Britain's Soviet Allies and did not accord with Gollancz's personal pro-Soviet sympathies. Several other publishers rejected the book, including Jonathan Cape and Faber and Faber, before it was accepted by Secker and Warburg. The paper shortages of the war era and its immediate aftermath further delayed publication. Fenwick A.10a.

Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in white; dust jacket (mild soiling and edge-wear, tiny losses at spine panel ends).

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THE SCOTT GREENBAUM COLLECTION OF LITERARY FIRST EDITIONS