first edition Hardcover
1946 · New York
by ORWELL, George
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. About fine in very good or better dust jacket with rubbing, and very small tears. A brilliant, classic anti-utopian short novel, in which a cast of barnyard animals re-enact the events of the Russian Revolution and the betrayal of its more humane elements by Stalin. Well-adapted both as a 1955 cartoon and a 1999 cable movie using the latest animal-special effects, though both versions added upbeat endings to Orwell's harrowing vision. Usually well-worn this is a nicer than usual copy. *Connolly 100*. (Inventory #: 540997)