[Rarebooks] FS: Some great books with substantial discounts

[Allington Books]

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We offer for purchase *today*, the below-described excellent items. *Immediate
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prior sale.  Multiple images can be found with our ABE listings of the
below, but any purchase must be made directly from us.

*García Márquez, Gabriel*. *The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor* [*Signed*].
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. A Fine copy of the first
edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket (remaining rather bright and
with less toning than we usually see), *SIGNED BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ*
on the half-title and there inscribed by him as follows: "To Dan, again &
again, / Gabriel [underscored] / 93; having the complete title of "The
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor who drifted on a life raft for ten days
without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty
queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and
forgotten for all time", this is the first translation to English of
Marquez's debut nonfiction book, a tale (written as a first-person
narrative) of a young sailor named Luis Alejandro Velasco who nearly died
when his ship sank on a voyage from the United States to Columbia. Multiple
members of the crew died, but Velasco, who had been declared dead after a
four-day search for survivors, drifted aboard a raft for ten days until the
currents carried him to the Colombian coast. Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the
1982 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels and short stories, in which
the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of
imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts", making him the
first Colombian to win the Prize. A Fine copy, *SIGNED BY GABRIEL GARCIA
MARQUEZ*. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (#6255)
*$325.00*

*Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr* (Alexander). *August 1914* [*Signed*] [August
chetyrnadtsatogo]. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First
edition. A Fine copy of the first American edition, first printing (slight
defect to the rear board's upper left corner, mild soiling), in a Near Fine
dust jacket (some small lifts to the front panel's lamination, creasing to
the rear flap -- otherwise Fine with modest soiling to the white rear panel
and with considerably brighter coloring to the dust jacket than we
typically see), *SIGNED AND DATED BY ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN* on the
half-title page and there inscribed by him as follows: "for Don Pope /
Alexander Solzhenitsyn / 1991" and being 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 the first edition, first printing
in any country are quite scarce. An altogether Near Fine copy, *SIGNED BY
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN*. SCARCE INDEED. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.
(#6314)
*$325.00*



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