Solzhenitsyn Alexander Translated Nicholas Bethell (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, 619pp, owner's name on endpaper, top edges spotted, others slightly browned, text clean and tight, board corners bumped, otherwise Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. not price-clipped. ISBN: 0370014413.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Translated by Nicholas Bethell & David Burg. Mass market paperback. Printed in Great Britain. Slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 140pp. SB-96.

First UK edition hard back binding in publisher's original photographic front cover, author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 55 printed pages of parallel English and Russian texts. Small piece of paper missing and tear to the lower end paper, without any ownership markings and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN [Literature].

Hard Cloth Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Green cloth with gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 131 pages clean and tight. The action of this four-act play is set in a Stalinist labour camp similar to the one where Solzhenitsyn himself served an eight-year term. The `Innocent' of the title is a new prisoner who doesn't know what's what or how to survive. He falls in love with a girl (`love-girl' is camp slang for a girl who sells her favours for privileges or extra rations) who warns him that in the labour camp integrity is the passport to death. He tries desperately to keep his honour and self-respect; she tries to convince him that to survive one must be ready to sin a little. Finally he realises that the only way he can have her is by sharing her with one of the high-ups in the camp. He will then have extra food, a comfortable job, and the woman he loves. All he has to do is to make that one compromise. The love story is only a small part of the play, which is also a vivid and frightening picture of camp life with its complicated hierarchies, its bribery, `fiddling', `lead-swinging' and cruelty. There is a large cast, ranging from the camp commandant to the `goners' - prisoners who have lost all interest in life. It is an unforgettable picture of Camp-land, `that famous country where ninety-nine men weep while one man laughs'. This is the first publication of The Love-Girl and the Innocent in any language. It reached dress-rehearsal stage in Moscow, but was banned by the authorities at the last moment. It has never been publicly performed. Size: 12mo.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ (in mylar). First American Printing. Textblock is very clean and tight. Covers lightly edge and corner bumped and rubbed; Dust jacket, in mylar, lightly edge and corner worn. 131p.; As of the publication date of this title, the play was banned in the then Soviet Union, as were all of Solzhenitsyn's works. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fifth Printing. A Fine Later Printing in a like dust-jacket that sports minimal tanning to the trim ; The Love-Girl and the Innocent is a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. It tells the story of a Soviet girl, a member of the proletariat, who falls in love with an aristocrat, a member of the Soviet elite. As the two grow closer, they are forced to confront the brutal realities of Soviet society, which condemns them to a life of poverty and isolation.; 8vo; 131 pages; Price? ? ?

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Spine reinforced with clear tape, otherwise, standard used reading condition. Used Book.

First English Edition. Very nice copy in tape-repaired dust-wrapper, neat inscription on title-page.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 559 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; spine heal tear where meets front cover leaving some exposure spine; spine slanting; edges factory coloring some discoloration; tips bumped; scuff and some tan to cover and spine area; tanned pages; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 133 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; crease back cover; scuff and stian to cover; tips bumped; few slight nicks to edges; tanned pages; foxing stains to various pages; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.