Skip to content

[Animal Farm] Kolgosp Tvarin by ORWELL (George) - 1947: Translated into Ukranian by Ivan Chernyatinskii

by ORWELL (George)

Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
[Animal Farm] Kolgosp Tvarin by ORWELL (George) - 1947

[Animal Farm] Kolgosp Tvarin: Translated into Ukranian by Ivan Chernyatinskii

by ORWELL (George)

  • Used
  • Paperback
  • first

ORWELL (George):

Kolgosp Tvarin [Animal Farm].

Translated into Ukranian by Ivan Chernyatinskii [Ihor Shevchenko].

[Munich:] Vidavnitstvi Prometei, [1947].

8vo., [i]90[1] pp.; printed pictorial wrappers.

Limited to 2000 copies, for distribution to Ukranian refugees. With a newly contributed preface by Orwell addressing the audience of this publication, and emphasizing his complicated feelings toward the Soviet regime. QUITE RARE.


  • Bookseller BATTLEDORE LTD US (US)
  • Format/Binding Printed pictorial wrappers
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First edition thus, only 2000 copies printed
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Vidavnitstvi Prometei
  • Place of Publication Munich
  • Date Published 1947
  • Size 8vo.
  • Keywords animal farm, Russian, Ukranian, Chernyatinskii, Orwell, Shevchenko
  • Size 8vo.
  • Vbf_category 10109

We have 1 copies available starting at $3,000.00.

Kolgosp Tvarin [Animal Farm]
More Photos

Kolgosp Tvarin [Animal Farm]

by ORWELL, GEORGE. [SHEVCHENKO, IGOR; CHERNYATINSKYY, IVAN]

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Ukrainian edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company
New York, New York, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$3,000.00

Show Details

Description:
Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei, 1947. First Ukrainian edition. Very Good. FIRST UKRAINIAN EDITION OF ORWELL'S CLASSIC POLITICAL ALLEGORY. We offer here the first edition of George Orwell's anti-Stalinist parable Animal Farm to be distributed (secretly and illegally) behind the Iron Curtain. Published in Ukrainian at the initiative of a group of socialist but anti-Stalinist Ukrainian dissidents, the publication of this edition is a significant incident in the long history of troubled relations between Ukraine and Russia, thus resonating with recent events. "In April 1946, [Igor] Shevchenko wrote to Orwell, now a mourning widower and single parent of an adopted baby, requesting authorisation to publish his Ukrainian translation. He described to Orwell how he had translated the book out loud to a transfixed audience of Ukrainian DPs [Displaced Persons] and they had always been puzzled how the West could be so naïve about the Soviet Union and wondered if anyone "knew the truth." He concluded: "Your… Read More
Item Price
$3,000.00

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.