The Gulag Archipelago - Vol. 3 (Parts 5, 6, & 7) (SIGNED)

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

ISBN 10: 0060139129 / ISBN 13: 9780060139124

Published by Harper & Row, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1978

About this Item

1st Edition/1st Printing-Vol. 3 of trilogy-parts V-VI-VII- Katorga; Exile; Stalin No More. SIGNED and inscribed on half-title page: " For Dan Maren, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, August 1981". Signed by author but inscribed by another hand (assume assistant or wife). Sent to author for signing while he lived in Vermont. Two 3/4" scrapes to front board edge and DJ fore-edge. $16.95 price intact. DJ lightly rubbed and has tape repair at scrape area; and some spine sunning. Also includes laid-in the original Feb 1993 copy from New York Times Book Review of speech Solzhenitsyn wrote for honor of receiving metal of honor from the National Arts Club entitled "The Relentless Cult of Novelty and How It Wrecked the Century". Includes laid-in a Time Magazine tribute article to Solzhenitsyn by Radhika Jones. Also includes laid-in the original New York Times obituary for author. Also comes with a unsigned VG hardcover copy of 1st US Printing of book by Solzhenitsyn's first wife Natalya Resetovskaya entitled "Sanya: My Life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn". Note: No International orders for this item. Very scarce signed copy by Nobel Prize winning author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 010228

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Gulag Archipelago - Vol. 3 (Parts 5, 6, ...

Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Describes individual escapes and attempted escapes from Stalin's camps, a disciplined, sustained resistance put down with tanks after forty days, and the forced removal and extermination of millions of peasants

About the Author:

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born into a family of Cossack intellectuals in Kislovodsk, Russia, in 1918. He fought for the Soviet Union in World War II, achieving the rank of captain of artillery. In 1945 he was arrested for writing a letter in which he criticized Joseph Stalin and spent eight years in prisons and labor camps. In 1956 he was allowed to settle in Ryazan, in central Russia, where he became a mathematics teacher and began to write. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Following the publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, he was exiled in 1974. His Soviet citizenship was restored in 1990 and he returned to Russia in 1994, where he now lives.