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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.
Language: English
Published by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., New York, 1963
Seller: Books Galore, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Early paperback edition; tight, clean copy with minor wear to the edges and corners, including a few small creases. Off-white discoloration on some sections of the cover, but nothing overly bad. Binding is firm.
Language: English
Published by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1963
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 2nd Edition. Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1963. First (1st) Printing of the First Edition from this publisher. In 1963 several publishers, including Praeger, published translations of the censored text, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, as published in November, 1962, in Novy Mir, in the Soviet Union. The canonical text, authorized by Solzhenitsyn was not published in the U.S.A. until 1991. Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley translated the present volume. Fine in a Good+ mylar-protected Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is clean, creamy white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full charcoal gray cloth with a white design to the front board, colors uniform throughout, bright gilt title, with red design, white author and publisher to the spine, unmarked red endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The mylar-protected Dust jacket is bright, though the words "one day" in red on the spine are faded, otherwise colors uniform throughout, and heavily chipped at top and bottom edges, with the original price ($3.95) intact on the front flap. See the photos. xxiv, 210 pages. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Introduction by Max Hayward and Leopold Labedz. This novel of the forced labor camps in the northeast of the Soviet Union instituted by Stalin follows an ordinary day of a man condemned to serve ten years for having been captured by the Germans during World War 2, and thereby becoming suspect as a spy.