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August 1914
by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0374106843
- ISBN 13
- 9780374106843
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange cloth with gilt initials on front board, top edge dyed black, maps on endpapers, [xiii], 622 pp. Spine ends turning in, slight rubbing and fading along top and bottom edges. Price-clipped DJ has 2 small tears at top of rear panel, and some edge wear, particularly at corners and front joint; in Brodart archival cover. "...the novel describes the Russian offensive into East Prussia, which resulted in the encirclement and defeat of General Samsonov's Second Army by Hindenburg. This disaster revealed the dry rot at the core of Tsarism and hastened its downfall." Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 24 X 15½ cm.
Synopsis
August 1914 is a novel by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about Imperial Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. The novel was completed in 1970, first published in 1971, and an English translation was first published in 1972. The novel is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and historiography, and has given rise to extensive and often bitter controversy, both from the literary as well as from the historical point of view.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LIFI00093
- Title
- August 1914
- Author
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374106843
- ISBN 13
- 9780374106843
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Fiction Russia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- X weight
- 64 oz
- Size
- 24 X 15½ cm
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About Twin City Antiquarian Books
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- Rubbing
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