Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Michael Glenny; H. T. Willetts — (1972) August 1914; (1999) November 1916

London; Sydney; Toronto, The Bodley Head; Jonathan Cape, 1972 . First edition. Cloth. Fascinating first two volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel cycle, both works being the first English editions and the first volume containing a lovely folding map. Lovely collection of the first two novels in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel cycle, both works being the first English editions.Collection comprised of:(1972) August 1914;(1999) November 1916.In publisher's original cloth bindings, November 1916 being quarter cloth with paper-backed boards. With the original unclipped dust wrappers.August 1914 contains a folding map to the rear.Recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, best known for The Gulag Archipelago, was a significant Russian author, who wrote extensively on and criticised the Soviet Union, leading to his imprisonment by SMERSH in 1945 and eventual exile in 1974. The present volumes, translated by Michael Glenny and H. T. Willetts, explore the outbreak of the Russian Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union. In publisher's original cloth bindings, November 1916 being quarter cloth with paper-backed boards. With the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, the first volume in excellent condition, the second featuring marginally more bumping and rubbing, with the odd mark to both copies. Dust wrappers, encased in protective bindings, showing minimal shelf wear and light marking, mainly contained to plastic sleeves. Internally, firmly bound. Mild discolouration, more so to August 1914, and the odd mark to endpapers, otherwise very bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.