Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Michael Glenny — August 1914

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First American Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the stated First American Printing, 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 and of his initials to front cover. Top-stained in blue. Printed paper dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, mostly along edges. 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. Map endpapers front and rear in gray and white. Frontis matter, 4-645 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,