One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

First edition in English. Crown 8vo. 192pp. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Author Note to rear. In the distinctive yellow Gollancz jacket, printed in red and black (priced 18/- net to front flap). Translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker.

Light offsetting strips to half-title and terminal text pages, dusting to top edge, toning to fore- and bottom edges, tanning to dustwrapper spine, else an exceptionally fresh, sharp copy.

A single day in the life of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, in one of Stalin's forced labour camps. An event of seismic proportions in Soviet literary history, it was first published in the magazine Noviy Mir, November 20, 1962, in the thaw following Stalin's demise. 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.