Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps

Firefly Books, 2004. hardcover. Kizny, Tomasz : Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps. Buffalo (NY) : Firefly Books, 2004. Size is quarto (4vo), 13"/32.5cm h. Bound in publisher's dark brown cloth, title debossed to spine and front board. Glossy color photographic dust jacket. Plain red endpapers. -[1-3]4-495, [496] blank. Prefaces (by Norman Davies, Jorge Semprum, and Sergei Kovalev); major sections documenting Solovki (a former Orthodox monastery on the Solovetsky Islands transformed into a prison camp in the 1920s), the White Sea Canal (a Stalin project of the early 1930s), the Vaigach Expedition (mining in the 1930s), Theater in the Gulag, Kolyma (gold mining, northeast Siberia, 1930s-1950s), Vorkuta (mining and industrial camp, northern Siberia, 1930s-1950s), and the Road of Death (building railroads through swamps, northern Siberia, 1940s-1950s). B&w photos. Condition notes: binding remains solid and sound on this large, heavy volume, light wear with spotty staining to boards, lower corners bumped; dust jacket shows a handful of closed tears to tail edge, with general light wear. Interior unmarked. This moving volume comes with ephemeral news release from publisher at time of publication. This large, heavy volume will require shipping over and above standard allowances, especially if shipped outside the United States; please inquire before committing to purchase. We personally inspect every book we offer.