Rakovyi Korpus (Cancer Ward) by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich - 1968

Moscow, Russia: Unknown, 2000. 820(73) : Very Good condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 2000, Entirely in Cyrillic Russian. Light edgewear and the spine foot tips are chipped. Binding slightly cocked. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good/No Jacket. Imprimerie, Pascal, Paris, 1111. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a vintage copy orginially done in paperback then bound into this hardcover. Transliterated title is Konyok-Gorbunok. Illustrated by Russkaya skazka. 8.75x7.25 hardcover dimensions. It may have been published around 1925. Contact us for more detail. Written in Russian Cyrillic. 130744 Childrens Fiction

Mockba - Moscow: V Universitetskoi tip, 1875 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 4 volumes bound in 2. Vol 1 - [vi], 400, ii; Vol 2 - [iv], 382; Vol 3 - [iv], 363, [iii]; Vol 4 - [iv], 374 pages. Errata only present in vols 1 and 3, so missing those from vols 2 and 4. Original cloth covered boards with what appear to be later leather spines. The leather has some wear to the edges. Vol 1 pages 1-2 are torn and damaged, but without loss, apparently glued back in. Vol 3 smaller tear to the inner margin, just into the text, reinforced along the rear. Pages 373/4 in vol 4 have tears along the edges and there is reinforcing to the inner margins of serval pages. Some tears to other page edges also. Some spotting and staining throughout. Apologies for any mistranscription from the Russian..

Three Sirens Press. Numbered. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. No 143/1500 printed privately at the press of J.J. Little and Ives Co. 1932 Good. No dj. Some fading, wear and rubbing to boards. Bumping, especially to edges, corners and ends of the spine. Some fraying at the ends of the spine. Age toning throughout. Previous owners name on front end paper in pen.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1963. First U.S. edition with scarce wraparound band reading " 'DUTTON EDITION IS SUPERIOR'/ Harrison Salisbury - NEW YORK TIMES." This edition translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker whereas the edition published in the U.S. the same year by Frederick A. Praeger was translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley (the Praeger precedes this one per Fiene). Harrison E. Salisbury's January 22, 1963, review reads in part: "Of the two translations neither comes close to reproducing the rough vigor of the author's concentration camp slang .... However, Ralph Parker's version in the Dutton edition is superior to the patchwork thrown together by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley for Praeger. The most striking blooper of the Hayward-Hingley translation is to put in the mouths of the prisoners the phrase 'Comrade Warder.' The prisoners were forbidden ... to call the guards 'comrade' ...." 8vo light gray-green rough cloth boards stamped in green on front and spine; top edge stain… Read More

Moscow, Russia: Unknown, 2000. 820(73) : Very Good condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 2000, Entirely in Cyrillic Russian. Light edgewear and the spine foot tips are chipped. Binding slightly cocked. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good/No Jacket. Imprimerie, Pascal, Paris, 1111. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a vintage copy orginially done in paperback then bound into this hardcover. Transliterated title is Konyok-Gorbunok. Illustrated by Russkaya skazka. 8.75x7.25 hardcover dimensions. It may have been published around 1925. Contact us for more detail. Written in Russian Cyrillic. 130744 Childrens Fiction

Mockba - Moscow: V Universitetskoi tip, 1875 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 4 volumes bound in 2. Vol 1 - [vi], 400, ii; Vol 2 - [iv], 382; Vol 3 - [iv], 363, [iii]; Vol 4 - [iv], 374 pages. Errata only present in vols 1 and 3, so missing those from vols 2 and 4. Original cloth covered boards with what appear to be later leather spines. The leather has some wear to the edges. Vol 1 pages 1-2 are torn and damaged, but without loss, apparently glued back in. Vol 3 smaller tear to the inner margin, just into the text, reinforced along the rear. Pages 373/4 in vol 4 have tears along the edges and there is reinforcing to the inner margins of serval pages. Some tears to other page edges also. Some spotting and staining throughout. Apologies for any mistranscription from the Russian..

Three Sirens Press. Numbered. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. No 143/1500 printed privately at the press of J.J. Little and Ives Co. 1932 Good. No dj. Some fading, wear and rubbing to boards. Bumping, especially to edges, corners and ends of the spine. Some fraying at the ends of the spine. Age toning throughout. Previous owners name on front end paper in pen.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1963. First U.S. edition with scarce wraparound band reading " 'DUTTON EDITION IS SUPERIOR'/ Harrison Salisbury - NEW YORK TIMES." This edition translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker whereas the edition published in the U.S. the same year by Frederick A. Praeger was translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley (the Praeger precedes this one per Fiene). Harrison E. Salisbury's January 22, 1963, review reads in part: "Of the two translations neither comes close to reproducing the rough vigor of the author's concentration camp slang .... However, Ralph Parker's version in the Dutton edition is superior to the patchwork thrown together by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley for Praeger. The most striking blooper of the Hayward-Hingley translation is to put in the mouths of the prisoners the phrase 'Comrade Warder.' The prisoners were forbidden ... to call the guards 'comrade' ...." 8vo light gray-green rough cloth boards stamped in green on front and spine; top edge stain… Read More