One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 210. Black cloth, lettered in gilt and white to spine. Stylized ocular illustration blindstamped to the front board. Red-orange endpapers. Explanatory Notes. Based on the British translation of Solzhenitsyn's manuscript first published by Victor Gollancz [U.K.], 1963. First published in the Russian language in the USSR in the magazine Noviy Mir, November 20, 1962. The so-called, 'authorised' version, published by Dutton [U.S.], is based on the Noviy Mir text distributed by Moscow News.

A trifle bit of rubbing at spine ends, a couple of light stains to lower edge-block, hinges starting to pp. 4/5 but holding, else near fine in a bright dust jacket.

A single day in the life of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, in one of Stalin's forced labour camps. Awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Basis for Caspar Wrede's award-winning feature film (1970), starring Tom Courtenay.