Cancer Ward - Part One
1968 (First UK Edition).
The Bodley Head
, London, England
Considered by the author (1918-2008) to be his most important novel 'portraying the relationships of a group of people from a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes' in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital'. Meant to be in two self-contained parts, this being volume one only. Banned in Russia the year after publication, it is a 'compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the.....Soviet police state'. Semi-autobiographical.
$105.00
Specifications
| Author | Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (Translated by N. Bethell and D. Burg ) |
| Publisher | The Bodley Head |
| Place Published | London, England |
| Year Published | 1968 (First UK Edition) |
| Date of First Edition or Edition Notes |
1968 (in Russian) |
| Size | 8vo - Octavo, 152mm x 229mm |
| Chapters | XXI |
| Pages | 338pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Hardcover with navy blue cloth boards and gilt spine title in excellent condition with non price-clipped dust wrapper that is chipped and worn original all edges though no repairs done nor required now protected in loose clear archival covering. |
| Overall | Slightly flecked on fore-edge with light soiling of top edge too but internally is also in an excellent state though with a small neat typed adhesive prior-owner label on upper corner of front free end paper that has an ink hand written prior owner identifier on the front free end paper verso. elsewhere it is damage free with no foxing being in very good original better condition overall. |