Animal Farm

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1946). First Edition. First Printing Near fine in black cloth covered boards with slightly chipped gilt text on the spine. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 4 7/8 inches with hints of rubbing to the cloth at the ends of the spine area. In a very good+, dust jacket with the $1.75 price intact on the front flap with 1/4 inch deep chipping from the upper edge of the spine area and 1/8 chipping chipping from the lower edge of the same, rubbing to the fold at the fore edge of the front panel and small chips from the corners of the front panel at the folds. 118 pages of text. The contents are clean, bright and tight in their binding with no prior ownership markings. The "first American edition" of Orwell's famous allegory of Soviet era totalitarianism under Stalin in its first issue dust jacket without the statement "printed in the USA" on the rear flap. (Inventory #: TB32916)