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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, (2003). The Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Octavo, red leather (hardcover), gilt letters and decorations to spine & covers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker, vi, 118 pp. Fine. With Publisher’s Collector’s Notes laid-in].
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Animal Farm, A Fairy Tale. Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson. Illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas. [Collector’s Edition, Bound in Genuine Leather.
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Tale.
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Norwalk:: Easton Press,. Near Fine. 2003. Hardcover. Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson. Collector's edition. Octavo, fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. About fine.; 118 pages .
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[FIRST UKRAINIAN TRANSLATION - WITH ORWELL'S EXCLUSIVE PREFACE] Kolhosp tvaryn [Animal Farm: A Fairy Tale]
by Orwell, George, Ivan Cherniatyns'kyi, translator, and M. Hryhoriiv, artist
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The important first printing of the Ukrainian translation of Orwell's Animal Farm, translated by the poet Ihor Shevchenko under the pseudonym Ivan Chernyatyns'kyi and prepared at Orwell's own urging. Shevchenko, a Displaced Person (DP) in post-war Germany, managed to find a copy of the recently published novella and contacted Orwell about a possible Ukrainian translation: "In April 1946, 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 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 book has solved that problem [...] Refugees reacted to the underlying values of the book, to the tale 'types,' to the underlying convictions of the author and so on. Besides, the mood of the book seems to correspond…
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