Animal Farm. A Fairy Story ORWELL, George [pseudonym of BLAIR, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950), [BATCHELOR, Joy, HALAS, John, illustrators] Gift Books & Fine Bindings,Illustrated & Plate Books,Literature

[Modern Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.109 [1]. With a colour frontispiece over two pages, and 31 in-text line drawings. Elegantly bound in dark red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin green labels, further gilt decoration to spine, and the original publisher's cloth over boards, titled in silver to upper. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Produced alongside the full-length cartoon film produced by Batchelor and Halas.