August 1914

Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Presumed first edition (book is wrapped). In Fine condition. Drawing of author on rear jacket by Karl W. Stuecklen. In mylar, protective wrapper. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Translated by Michael Glenny. Red cloth gold lettering on cover and spine. No markings or writing in the book, like new, 622 pp.

The author won a Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1970.

The novel is set in the beginning days of World War I from the author of Gulag Archipelago, Cancer Ward, and The First Circle. The story goes on to explain parts of the origins of the Communist Revolution in Russia. Solzhenitsyn provides a sweeping look at a society that is trapped by a disastrous war, ruled by an ineffectual tsar, and on the brink of enormous changes that will affect the entire world. Mingling actual characters like Lenin, Tsar Nicholas and his family, with fictional ones, he vividly dramatizes a crucial moment in Russian history.

The book was originally published in Paris in 1971 in Russian after the manuscript had been smuggled out of the USSR, and this edition is translated by Michael Glenny.