Animal Farm.
London, Secker and Warburg, 1945
Examples in this condition are of the utmost scarcity. The jackets for the entire edition were printed on the porous side of recycled wrappers, due to paper supply regulations in the UK during World War II. As a consequence they are extremely prone to rubbing and chaffing.
The book was banned in the Soviet Russia for obvious reasons, however it is interesting to note that printers were discouraged from printing it in the United Kingdom during the second world war as it was thought it might provoke their Soviet allies. The book was also banned in the United Arab Emirates in 2012 for 'un-Islamic' values and North Korea which is unsurprising given that the book questions authoritarian leadership.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to half-title and endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, titles to spine in white, minor browning to head and tail of spine, with the unclipped dust-jacket on the red printed Searchlight Books blank, short closed tear to top edge of front panel, rear panel slightly soiled, minor edge-wear, some rubbing to spine (as usual), else an attractive example.
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