Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Signed (10 results)

Finely bound edition of the Nobel Prize-winnerâs first published work, a classic of world literature. Octavo, original boards with gilt titles, frontispiece, in the original Russian. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper, "To Alexander Ivanovich, with the same name which is especially pleasing. In good memory of our meeting. A. Solzhenitsyn. Troitse-Lykovo 24 April 1995." In near fine condition. Books signed and inscribed by Solzhenitsyn are uncommon. Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918â"2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose works exposed the harsh realities of the Soviet regime, particularly its system of forced labor camps. His novel A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) is a seminal work of 20th-century literature that provides a stark, detailed account of a single day in the life of a Gulag prisoner. Based on Solzhenitsynâs own experiences in Soviet labor camps, the novel is a powerful indictment of totalitarian oppression and the dehumanizing conditions endured by political prisoners. Published during Nikita Khrushchevâs brief period of de-Stalinization, the book was initially allowed but later led to Solzhenitsynâs persecution and eventual exile from the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 for "the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." However, due to fear of Soviet repercussions, he did not travel to Stockholm to accept the prize until 1974, after being exiled.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian prose writers of the twentieth century. Signed by Author(s).

First edition in English, preceding the first British edition, of the Nobel Prize-winnerâs first published work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Anne Roberts A. Solzhenitsyn Dec. 2004." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by the Duquesnes. Jacket photograph by Sovfoto. Translated by Ralph Parker. Introduction by CBS newsman Marvin Kalb with a special foreword by Alexander Tvardovsky, Editor-in-Chief ofÃNovy Mir, the leading dissident literary journal during the late years of the Soviet Union. âThe speech denouncing Stalin at the 22nd Communist Party Congress in 1961 emboldened Solzhenitsyn to submit One Day for publication to⦠the Moscow literary journal Novyi Mir. Premier Nikita Khrushchev piloted a special resolution through the Central Committee authorizing its publication; it appeared in November 1962, and Solzhenitsyn found himself catapulted to literary fame by his first published work, not only for its intrinsic merits but for the very fact that the government was allowing fictional treatment of a formerly forbidden topic, life in Stalinâs forced-labor campsâ (Handbook of Russian Literature). The novel was based on Solzhenitsynâs eight-year incarceration in a Kazakhstan labor camp. It is the first and perhaps the best example of this Nobel laureateâs belief in âthe indivisibility of truth and âthe perception of world literature as the one great heart which beats for the concerns and misfortunes of our worldâ (Solzhenitsyn, Nobel prize acceptance speech, 1970). This, the first English translation, was faithful to the Russian original and necessarily included the âdeliberately muted themesâ resultant from Solzhenitsynâs self-censorship required for publication in the Soviet Union in 1962.

First edition of this powerful Nobel lecture by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Small octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page entirely in his hand. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. Toward the close of his 1970 Nobel Prize lecture, Alexander Solzhenitsyn affirmed the power of literature âto help mankind, in these its troubled hours, to see itself as it really is, notwithstanding the indoctrinations of prejudiced people and parties.â In this he affirms the power of literature to communicate the moral truths of our lives, our societies, across all national and ethnic boundaries.

Early printing of the Solzhenitsyn's epic novel of Russian history. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design Guy Fleming. Translated by Michael Glenny. "A grand meditation on history, a masterly re-creation of people and faces caught up in the sweep of time, symbolized by a rolling fiery red wheel. The work is breathtaking in scope . . . Much credit for its power must go to Mr. Willetts's superb translation," thought the The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal concluded that "it is now clear that [Solzhenitsyn] towers over all his contemporaries, European, American, and Latin American . . . The greatness of Russia is in this novel as it has not been in any work of fiction since the generation of Dostoevski and Tolstoy.".

First edition in English, preceding the first British edition, of the Nobel Prize-winnerâs first published work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Mr. Jon Fox A. Solzhenitsyn June 8, 1991." Accompanied by a photograph of the author signing this book with a business card on which Solzhenitsyn practiced spelling the recipient's name (completely in his hand), which is also visible in the photograph. Introduction by CBS newsman Marvin Kalb with a special foreword by Alexander Tvardovsky, Editor-in-Chief of Novy Mir, the leading dissident literary journal during the late years of the Soviet Union. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by the Duquesnes. Jacket photograph by Sovfoto. Translated by Ralph Parker. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A nice example, rare and desirable signed and inscribed and with noted provenance. âThe speech denouncing Stalin at the 22nd Communist Party Congress in 1961 emboldened Solzhenitsyn to submit One Day for publication to⦠the Moscow literary journal Novyi Mir. Premier Nikita Khrushchev piloted a special resolution through the Central Committee authorizing its publication; it appeared in November 1962, and Solzhenitsyn found himself catapulted to literary fame by his first published work, not only for its intrinsic merits but for the very fact that the government was allowing fictional treatment of a formerly forbidden topic, life in Stalinâs forced-labor campsâ (Handbook of Russian Literature). The novel was based on Solzhenitsynâs eight-year incarceration in a Kazakhstan labor camp. It is the first and perhaps the best example of this Nobel laureateâs belief in âthe indivisibility of truth and âthe perception of world literature as the one great heart which beats for the concerns and misfortunes of our worldâ (Solzhenitsyn, Nobel prize acceptance speech, 1970). This, the first English translation, was faithful to the Russian original and necessarily included the âdeliberately muted themesâ resultant from Solzhenitsynâs self-censorship required for publication in the Soviet Union in 1962.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Inscribed, dated 2005, and signed by the author on the title page. Hardcover, bound in printed boards. The binding lightly rubbed. Text in Russian. Signed by Author(s).

First edition in English, signed and dated 2 July 1982 by the author on the title page. Prisoners is the second work in a three-part series (including Victory Celebrations and The Love-Girl and the Innocent) inspired by Solzhenitsyn's own experiences in a post-revolutionary Stalinist prison. It was first published two years prior in Paris as Plenniki. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Top edge foxed; jacket unclipped, spine faded: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

First U.S. edition. Translated from the Russian by H. T. Willetts. SIGNED by Solzhenitsyn on half-title page. A precusor of sorts to THE RED WHEEL--the first chapters were incorporated into the expanded 1984 edition of AUGUST 1914, and the rest into NOVEMBER 1916 and MARCH 1917. Near fine in bright, very good to near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with rubbed tear with small skinned spot to lower edge front panel but otherwise only minor wear. SIGNED BY SOLZHENITSYN.

SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. STORIES AND PROSE POEMS. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1971]. 8vo., blue cloth in dust jacket. First American Edition. Twenty-one novellas, short stories and prose poems by the Nobel Laureate. Signed by Solzhenitsyn on the title page and dated "1978" by him. Fine in lovely d/j. $850.00.