[ANIMAL FARM IN POLISH SAMIZDAT] Folwark zwierzęcy: opracowali i narysowali Maciek Bialy, Karol Blue [Animal farm: adapted and illustrated by Maciek Bialy and Karol Blue].
[Warsaw]: Rekontra, [1985]. Small quarto (27 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with a large drawing, printed in green and black; 44 pp. of offset-reproduced drawn comics to rectos and versos. Very good, save for minor toning, especially to rear wrapper. Item #50752
First edition of this samizdat comic book edition, in Polish, of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, published by a small underground publishing house in Warsaw. Maciek Bialy and Karol Blue were the pseudonyms of Robert Śnieciński and Fernando Molina. Orwell’s political satire of the Soviet establishment was naturally banned in all Soviet bloc nations, but was tremendously popular with the Polish independent semi-clandestine publishing houses, which flourished in Poland starting in the mid-1970s. Polish underground publications are scarce outside of Poland.
As of February 2026, KVK and OCLC show six copies in North America.
Price: €950.00