The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I - II by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander Isaevich - 1974

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Black cloth with gilt (roughly) 6 3/4" by 9 1/2" (inches), headband, xii, 660 pages, Near Fine condition with ink name on ffep, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear, now in Mylar. "In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents & individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power & momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression This first volume involves us in the innocent victim’s arrest & preliminary detention & the stages by which he is transferred across the breadth of the Soviet Union to his ultimate destination: the hard labor camp." Check out the scans. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.