ORWELL (George).
Animal Farm.
First cheap edition. 8vo. Original green cloth with black lettering to spine, price-clipped dust jacket. London, Secker & Warburg, 1949.
First cheap edition. 8vo. Original green cloth with black lettering to spine, price-clipped dust jacket. London, Secker & Warburg, 1949.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell's Complete Works published 1997-8.
A very good copy, jacket price clipped with tiny tear to front wrapper, slight browning.