Soljenitsyne, Alexandre [Solzhenitsyn]

ARKHIPELAG GULAG 1918-1956: OPYT KHUDOZHESTVENNOGO ISSLEDOVANIIA [Архипелаг ГУЛАГ] [THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO] [Volumes one and two only, parts I-IV]

Paris: YMCA-Press, 1973-1975. First Edition, First Issue. 12mos., Two volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's original photographic wrappers, red lettering on spines and front covers. Minor shelf wear and bumping. Slight rubbing to edges of text blocks. Uneven toning to rear cover of volume one. Some light peeling to rear hinge of volume one. Bookseller sticker to interior of front cover of volume one. Text in Russian. With two autograph notes signed addressed to Sheldon S. Cohen. LA consignment. Shelved case 8 1/2.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's seminal polemic against the Soviet prison camp system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature before publication of his magnum opus.

Sheldon S. Cohen was Chief Counsel and then Commissioner of the IRS under Lyndon B. Johnson, creator of the first presidential blind trust (for Johnson), general counsel to the Democratic National Committee, and vetter of the tax returns of numerous Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates.