Orwell (George) [Animal Farm], first Czech edition, illustrations, renewed wrappers but preserving original upper wrapper neatly joined at spine, lightly soiled with nicks and creasing to edges, 4to, I. L. Kober, 1946. *** First edition of this work in translation, and first published edition with illustrations.As far as we can ascertain, this is the extremely rare first translation of Animal Farm into any language. Published in 1946 by I. L. Kober, which was an important publishing house active on the Czech literary scene from the mid-nineteenth century until it went bust in 1949. It thus seemingly supersedes the first Polish edition published at the turn of 1946-1947, and printed with a run 5000 copies in fragile wrappers, it has plausibly become rare and thus evaded mention in Orwellian studies and bibliographies. Rare; Library Hub records just one copy in the British Library.