London: Secker and Warburg, 1945. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.92. Publisher's green cloth lettered in white. Neat ink inscription dated September 18th 1945 (one month after publication), contents and covers clean and fresh with the faintest of sunning to the spine, white lettering is bright without flaking. A fine copy of this literary high-spot, lacking the scarce jacket. Orwell's famous satire in fable form on Soviet totalitarianism and by extension, on all revolutions; a chilling little tale, which produced such arresting phrases as "All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.", "Four legs good, two legs bad", "Napoleon is always right." and "some animals are more equal than others." A major title, but with a particularly small printing of only 4500 copies; Anti-Soviet literature was controversial at this time (the victorious wartime Soviet-US-GB alliance was fresh in the mind), and Orwell's manuscript had already been rejected…