Unsigned first edition book: Animal Farm by George Orwell. First American edition. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.5, 118 pages. Book condition: VG/VG, with wear to gilt titling on spine, and a bit soiling and a few tiny edge tears to the clipped dust jacket. A widely read and often quoted allegorical novella that is considered one of the greatest English-language books of the 20th century.