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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First American Edition Thus. First U.S. printing of the Bethell-Burg translation (preceded in the U.S. by the Dial Press edition of a translation by Rebecca Frank, 1968). Octavo. (20cm.); black cloth hardcover; red top-stain; dustjacket; 560pp. Two faint smudges to top-stain, else a fine copy, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $10.00 on front flap), crisp and clean with a few tiny nicks to extremities, Near Fine. The Nobel Prize winning author's fifth book, in the standard and generally preferred translation, still in print in paperback (2023). The Cancer Ward first began circulating inside the Soviet bloc as a samizdat in 1966. The Bethell-Burg translation (which, like all contemporary translations, was unauthorized by Solzhenitsyn) first began appearing as extracts in the Times Literary Supplement in 1968, and was published in two volumes by The Bodley Head the same year.
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Cancer Ward
by SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander Isayevich; Nicholas Bethell and David Burg, transl
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The Fifth Seal
by [SOCIAL FICTION] [WW2 - SOVIET UNION] ALDANOV, Mark; Nicholas Wreden, transl
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; red publisher's top-stain; 482pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, with top-stain clean and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap), crisp, clean and unfaded with a trace of rubbing and a single brief, closed tear to front panel; Near Fine. Quite nice copy of this late-career novel by Aldanov, set within the Soviet foreign service at the outbreak of WW2. Aldanov (1886-1957) published most of his literary work after emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1919. Most of his career was spent in France; from 1941-46 he lived in New York. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize (without ever winning) thirteen tmes.
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Le Monde Oscillatoire. Schéma du monde oscillatoire - Charte des Hommes de bonne volonté - L'univers vu par un homme contemporain
by PANINE, Dimitri
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Monte Carlo: Éditions Regain, 1974. First Trade Edition. Octavo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 470pp. Mild external soil; small crease to upper corner of front wrapper; still a tight, nicely preserved copy, Very Good or better. A major work by the dissident Soviet philosopher who was the model for the character Sologdin in Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle.
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