Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Michael Glenny — August 1914

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A massively heavy, oversized volume, being the fine novel that just preceded his literary experimentation, The Gulag Archipelago. Bound in red cloth over boards in an Imperial octavo format, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine and author's initials to front cover. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. Faint shadow of former Scotch tape securing dust jacket to front and rear paste-downs, since removed expertly. Map endpapers front and rear. August 1914 is a big, fat, sprawling novel set in Russia by Nobel Prize-winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; it covers the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. The added Foreword notes that the novel wasn't "complete" (though completed ni 1970), and the author claims that it was a "first part, or facsile," of an anticipated, much longer work. Frontis matter, 4-622 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,