Publicado por A Signet Book/ Signet Books/ Published by The New American Library, New York, 1963
Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1st Printing: 1963. 158 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external, but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Smooth covers. Mildly or minimally shelf worn. Minimal, light or very mild discoloration/browning/tanning or foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Slightly creased and slanted spine. Water warpage on back cover. Slightly creased front cover.
Publicado por Dutton, New York, 1963
Librería: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. 160p., ownership name, offsetting to endpapers else good first US edition stated in gray cloth boards and green titles and rules, fair-only heavily worn and price-clipped dj. Author's debut.
Publicado por The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1988
Librería: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: RMABA
Full-Leather. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. Hardcover edition not stated, very slight lean, tiny scuff to base of spine, otherwise a crisp, Near Fine copy in full red leather with gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt.
Publicado por Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1963
Librería: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear, creasing and short closed tears to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, some slight overall time and fingerprint staining, spine slightly browned, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 192pp. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety, warmth and food are the first objectives. Reading it, you enter a world of incarceration, brutality, hard manual labour and freezing cold, and participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life. Though twice decorated for his service at the front during the Second World War, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), was arrested in 1945 for making derogatory remarks about Stalin, and sent to a series of brutal Soviet labour camps in the Arctic Circle, where he remained for eight years. Released after Stalin's death, he worked as a teacher, publishing his novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' with the approval of Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, to huge success. His 1967 novel 'Cancer Ward', as well as his magnum opus 'The Gulag Archipelago', were not as well received by Soviet authorities, and not long after being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, Solzhenitsyn was deported from the USSR. In 1994, after twenty years in exile, Solzhenitsyn made his long awaited return to Russia. A modern classic.