[Rarebooks] FS: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Signed "August 1914"

[Allington Books]

*Offered*:  *August 1914 by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.  Signed. *

*Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr* (Alexander) []. *August 1914* [Signed] [August
chetyrnadtsatogo]. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Later
printing. A Very Good + or better copy of the first American edition, later
printing (one corner bent, topstain mildly faded, otherwise Near Fine with
modest pushing at the spine ends), in a Very Good + dust jacket (short
closed tear to upper front panel near the spine panel, repaired with tape
on the jacket's verso/interior), SIGNED BY ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN on the
title page; the first installment of Solzhenitsyn's "The Red Wheel" cycle
of novels ("August 1914", "November 1916", "March 1917", and "April 1917")
which retell the demise of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Soviet
Union. "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." (Gary Kern, The New York Times).
"August 1914" begins the cycle with Imperial Russia's disastrous opening of
World War I with its defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia.
Conceived in 1939 and finished in 1970, "August 1914" was rejected by the
Soviet publishers and was published by the YMCA Press in Paris (1971)
without Solzhenitsyn's permission, though he embraced it when he acquired
knowledge of it. The first English translations (US and UK) were published
in 1972, and a revised edition was published in 1984. Solzhenitsyn won the
1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for "the ethical force with which he has
pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Signed copies
of this epic novel in any printing are quite scarce. A Very Good + copy,
SIGNED BY ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN. SCARCE. Very Good + in fine dust-jacket.
Hardcover. (#00002884)        $535.00

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