The Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
first edition first printing U.S. hardcover in dust jacket; Rebecca Frank translation; book plate removal scuff front free end paper, text unmarked; minimal age tone; sound binding; clean cloth cover, vivid titling; dj has some fade along spine and edge wear (rubbing, a short tear lower front corner, small nicks at spine ends and corner tips); flap price present HC3+4ebi
Synopsis
Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in 1967, and banned in the Soviet Union in 1968. The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Uzbekistan in 1955, in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12684
- Title
- The Cancer Ward
- Author
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition U.S.
- Publisher
- Dial Press
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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