Animal Farm. London: Secker & Warburg, 1946. Third Impression. Blue cloth boards in publisher’s dust jacket. Jacket lightly scuffed, inner hinges a little frayed, contents pages in nice bright condition.

Regarded as Orwell’s masterpiece and one of the most skillful allegorical novels of the twentieth century, which the author said ‘was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.’

First published by Secker and Warburg in 1945.