Book club edition. Translated by Michael Glenny. Map endpapers. Textblock edges lightly foxed, boards with modest edgewear, spine with a tiny tear at foot, very good in an about very good dust jacket with small abrasions on front panel and spine, modest wear to the extremities and a few shallow tears. First English publication of the Nobel Prize-winning author's novel, a mix of fiction and history recounting Russia's entrance into World War I.
Very good; unpriced dust jacket rear panel drawing of Solzhenitsyn by Karl W. Stuecklen, edge wear lightly rubbed, very good-. 622 pp. Map illustrated end papers, orange cloth, 8vo, translated by Michael Glenny.
1972 First American printing F, S& G. Book is in VG/VG condition with minor tears at top left corner of DJ as well as rear right corner. There are a few tiny red ink? dots on rear DJ and back inside flyleaf. Spine has a little give otherwise an excellent copy.
Early printing of the Solzhenitsyn's epic novel of Russian history. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design Guy Fleming. Translated by Michael Glenny. A grand meditation on history, a masterly re-creation of people and faces caught up in the sweep of time, symbolized by a rolling fiery red wheel. The work is breathtaking in scope...Much credit for its power must go to Mr. Willetts's superb translation, " thought the The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal concluded that "it is now clear that [Solzhenitsyn] towers over all his contemporaries, European, American, and Latin American...The greatness of Russia is in this novel as it has not been in any work of fiction since the generation of Dostoevski and Tolstoy.
Early printing of the Solzhenitsyn's epic novel of Russian history. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design Guy Fleming. Translated by Michael Glenny. A grand meditation on history, a masterly re-creation of people and faces caught up in the sweep of time, symbolized by a rolling fiery red wheel. The work is breathtaking in scope...Much credit for its power must go to Mr. Willetts's superb translation, " thought the The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal concluded that "it is now clear that [Solzhenitsyn] towers over all his contemporaries, European, American, and Latin American...The greatness of Russia is in this novel as it has not been in any work of fiction since the generation of Dostoevski and Tolstoy.
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