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Animal Farm : a fairy tale

Title: Animal Farm : a fairy tale / by George Orwell ; with an introduction by Peter Stansky and with twenty-four prints by Jonathan Hammer.
Author: Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Publication: San Francisco : The Arion Press, 2013.
Supplementary Content: Publisher's description

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Arion) 16-54	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

150 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : 24 color illustrations; 27 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Louise and Leonard Riggio.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Fiction.
Political fiction.
Satirical literature.
Fables.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Times New Roman (Monotype)

Note

"The edition is limited to three hundred numbered copies for sale and twenty-six lettered copies for complimentary distribution ... Of this edition, thirty of the numbered copies are accompanied by an extra suite of twenty-four relief prints, the same images as appear in the book, printed in two colors and hand-colored on Zerkall natural white. All copies of the book and the extra suite of prints are signed by the artist"--Colophon.
The present record describes the ordinary copies, issued without the extra suite of prints.
"Reprinted by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company."--Title page verso. Originally published in 1945.
"Animal Farm is the ninety-ninth publication of the Arion Press. It was designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Blake Riley, Lewis Mitchell, Brian Ferrett, Christopher Godek, Mark Sarigianis, Leif Erlandsson, Sarah Songer, Rochelle Youk, Diana Ketcham, Lyssa Black, Thomas Gladysz, and Kaelyn Davis ... The type is Times New Roman in Monotype composition, printed by letterpress on Zerkall Ivory Book"--Colophon.
Illustrations are full-page "relief prints ... printed from polymer plates made from negatives scratched by the artist with an etching needle for the black images, with photopolymer plates made from overlay drawings in pencil for the red tints"--Bibliography of the Arion Press. Letterpress caption on verso of each print.

Indexed In (note)

Bibliography of the Arion Press

Binding (note)

Publisher's quarter maroon cloth and ochre cloth, with image of the farm's front gate on both boards, with name Animal Farm on front and Manor Farm on back. Issued in an ochre and maroon cloth-covered slipcase.

Call Number

*KP (Arion) 16-54

OCLC

868023127

Author

Orwell, George, 1903-1950, author.

Title

Animal Farm : a fairy tale / by George Orwell ; with an introduction by Peter Stansky and with twenty-four prints by Jonathan Hammer.

Publisher

San Francisco : The Arion Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Rare Books copy is no. 256; signed in pencil by Jonathan Hammer.

Indexed In:

Bibliography of the Arion Press, entry 99

Binding

Publisher's quarter maroon cloth and ochre cloth, with image of the farm's front gate on both boards, with name Animal Farm on front and Manor Farm on back. Issued in an ochre and maroon cloth-covered slipcase.

Local Note

Rare Books copy accompanied by prospectus (10 unnumbered pages on 3 sheets (2 folded) : 1 illustration).

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States California San Francisco.

Added Author

Stansky, Peter, 1932- writer of introduction.

Hammer, Jonathan, illustrator.

Hoyem, Andrew, book designer.

Arion Press, printer, publisher.

Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne, papermaker.

Research Call Number

*KP (Arion) 16-54

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