Animal Farm. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. Second Impression. Green cloth boards, title lettered in white along spine, in publisher’s dust jacket. Jacket lightly chipped along lower margin, otherwise a nice bright copy

Regarded as Orwell’s masterpiece and one of the most skillful allegorical novels of the twentieth century, which the author said ‘was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.’

First published by Secker and Warburg in August 1945, this second impression was issued later in the same month.