Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Cancer Ward Parts 1 & 2

Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

First UK edition in two volumes published by Bodley Head 1969

8vo Vol 1 338pp Volume 2 279pp

Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg

With original boards and dust jackets very good some scuff marks to djs but they're both complete and not price clipped Will be covered in protective mylar covers.

Some minor spotting to text block edges. Text pages unmarked no ownership inscriptions. Some marks to endpapers.

Solzhenitsyn's semi autobiographical novel originally published in the Soviet Union in 1966 in samizdat but banned the following year. It's about a small group of patients in Ward 13, the cancer ward in 1954 a year after Stalin's death. Inspired by a hospital in Tashkent.