Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Michael Glenny — August 1914

London, England, The Bodley Head, 1972. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the stated First English Edition, published simultaneously by John Lane at the Bodley Head, in London, and in Toronto, Canada. The author published this novel just prior to his literary experimentation, The Gulag Archipelago. Bound in red cloth over boards in an Imperial octavo format, uber-sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Top-stained in red. Slight forward cock to spine, slight crimp to upper text-block tips, dissipating. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 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. Michael Kenny's Translator's note and Publisher's note. Frontis matter, 4-645 pp. and with fold-out map at rear.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,