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Genre/Form: | Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Orwell; Secker & Warburg,; Morrison and Gibb, |
OCLC Number: | 3655473 |
Notes: | "First published May 1945"--Title page verso, 1st printing. Actually published 17 August 1945. "Publication delayed after the 'May' imprint due to paper shortage"--Fenwick. This edition reprinted/reissued August 1945 (Fenwick A10b) and October 1946 (Fenwick A10c), with statement emended to read, "First published August 1945 ...". Collation: [A]⁸ B-F⁸ [$1 signed, preceded by 'A.F.--']; 48 leaves, pages [1-8 (1-4 blank)] 9-91 [92-96 (93-96 blank)]. Leaves A1,2 and F7,8 used as endleaves (A1 and F8 pasted down). Issued in publisher's green cloth; spine lettered down in white. In grey and green dust jacket; front flap with publisher description ("this good-natured satire upon dictatorship") and price 6s.; back flap with a "message addressed to countries outside Britain", concerning BBC broadcasts; on back, publisher's "early list for 1945" (listing Animal Farm as "a simple satire for a child of our time"). |
Description: | 91, [5] pages ; 19 cm |
Responsibility: | by George Orwell. |
Abstract:
Satire on dictatorship.
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