The Cancer Ward
by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Tacoma, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Dell, 1970 Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. 616 pages. Light chipping on the spine and edges. Strong binding, clean text..
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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- Bookseller
- Else Fine Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001737
- Title
- The Cancer Ward
- Author
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Dell
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Russian Fiction
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Else Fine Booksellers
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Tacoma, Washington
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...