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Original Wraps. Condición: Fine in Fine Slipcase. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Includes 21 multi-colour linocut illustrations and chapter heads by artist Hugh Ribbans. Printed by James Freemantle on Zerkall paper. "Animal Farm, an anti-utopian satire by George Orwell, published in 1945. One of Orwell's finest works, it is a political fable based on the events of Russia's Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. The book concerns a group of barnyard animals who overthrow and chase off their exploitative human masters and set up an egalitarian society of their own. Eventually the animals' intelligent and power-loving leaders, the pigs, subvert the revolution. Concluding that "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" (with its addendum to the animals' seventh commandment: "All animals are equal"), the pigs form a dictatorship even more oppressive and heartless than that of their former human masters." [publisher's site]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Hand-sewn binding with vibrant multi-coloured linocut dust wrapper, housed in an acrylic display case with a laid in acetate spine label. 8vo. 124pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered, limited edition this being 56.