The Sixties Catalogue

67 J u l y 2 0 2 0 Inscribed By Solzhenitsyn 65. SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha. Moscow, 1963. Small square octavo, original paper wrappers, custom cardboard chemise. $15,000. Click for more info First edition in book form of the Nobel Prize-winner’s controversial first published work, inscribed by Solzhenitsyn in Cyrillic: “With respect to Tamara Pavlovna,” with his signature and a date of 1969. This novel was based on Solzhenitsyn’s eight-year incarceration in a Kazakhstan labor camp. It is the first and perhaps the best example of this Nobel laureate’s belief in “the indivisibility of truth and ‘the perception of world literature as the one great heart which beats for the concerns and misfortunes of our world’” (Solzhenitsyn, Nobel prize acceptance speech, 1970). First serialized in November 1962 in the journal Novyi Mir . Text fine. Fragile original paper wrappers with expert restoration to spine. A rare and desirable inscribed copy of this classic work of world literature. “Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?”