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Animal Farm : a fairy story

Author: George Orwell; Secker & Warburg,; Morrison and Gibb,
Publisher: London : Secker & Warburg, [London] : [Edinburgh] : Made and printed in Great Britain by Morrison and Gibb Ltd., London and Edinburgh 1945.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Satire on dictatorship.
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Genre/Form: Fiction
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.

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