SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. (Ralph Parker)

Striking original illustrated Penguin covers by Gillian Lewis. 143pp.. A very good copy but spine tail chipped, paper browning as usual. Clean and tight. “The masterpiece on life in a Stalinist labour camp which shook Russia and shocked the world.”First published in the Soviet Union in 1962. An unauthorised Russian edition was published in London by Flegon. This translation first published by Gollanz in 1963 and this Penguin edition the same year. First thus.