1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED inscribed and dated (Aug. 1980) by author. Signed by author but seller's name printed by another hand (assume wife or assistant). Book sent to author for signing while he lived in Vermont. Light foxing to page edges. DJ has very light shelf edge rubbing. $15.95 price on DJ flap.Ghosting on rear end page and pastedown from laid-in review (original 1980 review from New YorkTimes Book Review included). Also includes laid-in the original May 11, 1980 interview, by Hilton Kramer, called "A Talk With Solzhenitsyn" from New York Times Book Review. Also includes laid-in the original Feb. 10, 1980 New York Times Review article "The Writer Underground" which are the opening pages of 'The Oak and the Calf' which was scheduled to be publiched by Harper in May. Also includes laid-in the original USA Today obituary for author, plus original obituaries from Syracuse Post-Standard and Rome (NY) Sentinel newspapers. (Bonus: comes with a unsigned 1st American Edition hardcover copy of Solzhenitsyn's "August 1914"). NOTE: No Iternational orders for this item. Scarce signed copy of 'The Oak' by Nobel Prize winner. Size: 8vo - over 7ž" - 9ž" tall. Seller Inventory # 007131

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Title: The Oak and the Calf : Sketches of Life in ...

Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Solzhenitsyn's narrative of his tenyear battle to outwit Russian officials and have his works published in his own country recounts his struggles from the moment of his release from Gulag through the early seventies

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Text: English, Russian (translation)

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I am not a professional bookseller. I am disposing my personal library of signed first editions and autographs, collected as a hobby over the past 58 years.

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