Cancer Ward (Complete in one Volume)
by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Book Club Associates, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book Club edition 1975 printing. Hardback book is tight and clean, and square. Boards clean, and sharp. Title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with toning to edges. Feels read, but still firmly bound. Very lightly bumped to head and foot of spine, Very good condition. Jacket nice and straight with crimping to edges, Spine partially sunned. Panels clean with bold colours. Jacket grades very good For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A very good reader copy of this title.
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone
Synopsis
Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in 1967, and banned in the Soviet Union in 1968. The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Uzbekistan in 1955, in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
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- Seller
- Durdles Books (IOBA) (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 005809
- Title
- Cancer Ward (Complete in one Volume)
- Author
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Pages
- 564
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 2.20 lbs
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
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About the Seller
Durdles Books (IOBA)
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Birmingham, West Midlands
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