ORWELL, George. Animal Farm
ORWELL, George. Animal Farm. London: Secker and Warburg. 1962. 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the terrific dust jacket designed by Denis Piper. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, just a trifle faded at extremities. The binding tight and square, the contents with tape ghosting to front and rear pastedowns, with ‘stolen from Eric [—]’ in ink to front endpaper with an old crayon price here, else fine. The dust jacket with associated tape ghosting, much less problematic, and a patch from an old price sticker alongside the original price of 8s 6d net to front flap. A few very small nicks and rubbing to extremities, but a very presentable example overall.
Always pleasing on the eye, this is the first edition of Orwell’s canonical text to utilise the Denis Piper dust jacket. He was commissioned to design eleven books in this new ‘collected edition’ of Orwell, and the result was an evocative, inimitable set of designs.
ORWELL, George. Animal Farm. London: Secker and Warburg. 1962. 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the terrific dust jacket designed by Denis Piper. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, just a trifle faded at extremities. The binding tight and square, the contents with tape ghosting to front and rear pastedowns, with ‘stolen from Eric [—]’ in ink to front endpaper with an old crayon price here, else fine. The dust jacket with associated tape ghosting, much less problematic, and a patch from an old price sticker alongside the original price of 8s 6d net to front flap. A few very small nicks and rubbing to extremities, but a very presentable example overall.
Always pleasing on the eye, this is the first edition of Orwell’s canonical text to utilise the Denis Piper dust jacket. He was commissioned to design eleven books in this new ‘collected edition’ of Orwell, and the result was an evocative, inimitable set of designs.
ORWELL, George. Animal Farm. London: Secker and Warburg. 1962. 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the terrific dust jacket designed by Denis Piper. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, just a trifle faded at extremities. The binding tight and square, the contents with tape ghosting to front and rear pastedowns, with ‘stolen from Eric [—]’ in ink to front endpaper with an old crayon price here, else fine. The dust jacket with associated tape ghosting, much less problematic, and a patch from an old price sticker alongside the original price of 8s 6d net to front flap. A few very small nicks and rubbing to extremities, but a very presentable example overall.
Always pleasing on the eye, this is the first edition of Orwell’s canonical text to utilise the Denis Piper dust jacket. He was commissioned to design eleven books in this new ‘collected edition’ of Orwell, and the result was an evocative, inimitable set of designs.