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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].

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 .

[Munich, Germany]: Vidavnitstvi Prometei [Prometheus Publishing House], [1947]. First Ukrainian Edition. Softcover. Fine. pp. 91. Slim 8vo. Illustrated card covers measuring 15 x 20.5 cm. Black-and-white portrait of Orwell, accompanying the only known preface he penned for this work. Exceptionally well-preserved with no evidence of any flaws to the extremities. Contents equally without blemish with firm, sound binding. An exceedingly rare offering of this landmark of post-war Ukrainian printing. While the translator, Shevchenko, "a highly-educated twenty-four-year-old" refugee, and his small press (Prometej, or, Promethius) would secure an initial print-run of 5000 copies, a mere 2000 would ultimately be distributed. Fearing that the small work was anti-Soviet propaganda which could antagonize their Russian counterparts, the remaining 3000 copies would be confiscated by the United States military. As Andrea Chalupa notes in 'Orwell and the Refugees: the Untold Story of Animal Farm', "At the time,… Read More