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George Orwell (alias Eric Arthur Blair) (1945) ‘Animal Farm‘, UK first edition, first printing, published by Secker & Warburg, in the original, unrestored first issue dust jacket with ‘Searchlight’ printed in red on the reverse of the jacket. Condition: the book is in near fine condition with no previous owners’ scribbles, no stamps, no bookplates. Repriced in pink pencil on the ffep. The boards are clean and square with the green colour unfaded bar the spine tips corresponding to the small chipped areas of the wrapper, and a small area to the top front board where the dust jacket was folded over. The dust jacket is the original first issue wrapper and has NOT been restored in any way. It is in very good condition with only small chips to the fold ends as shown. Light soiling to the back panel. The spine is rubbed. The front panel has a closed tear above the ‘N’ of the title. The flaps are clean and complete with the 6 S. price present as called for. The reverse is nice with the red train and ‘Searchlight Books’ printed in red(there is also a blue variant with no priority). A very nice specimen with the scarce original dust jacket. Animal Farm, a landmark book of dystopian fiction. Its publication was delayed since the Allies needed Stalin in the war effort against the Nazis and the UK did not want to offend Uncle Joe with this mocking satire of Soviet authoritarian rule. One of only 4,500 true first edition copies with the original dust jacket (most copies do not retain the fragile wrapper anymore). The American version of the book had a colossal 50,000 print run and was issued in 1946. Within four years of publication already half a million copies were sold. First and Fine