New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1946]. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-118 [119-122: blank], black cloth, spine stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. "ANIMAL FARM, which owes something to Swift and Defoe, is his masterpiece, the best fable in the language with Boxer the cart-horse, the pigs and the donkey becoming household words." - Connolly, The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books... 93. 4500 copies printed. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-276. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 156. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 228-229. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 45-7].

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Among the handful of most influential novels published in the twentieth century. Filmed several times starting in 1956 with Edmund O'Brien, again in 1965 and most recently in 1984 starring Richard Burton. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-450; (1981) 3-580; (1987) 3-302; and (1995) 3-140. Connolly, The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books… 99. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 157. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 139-40. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 114. Pringle, Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels 1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 236. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1531-36. In 333. Reginald 11041].