GRUDZINSKI GUSTAW HERLING
ANOTHER WORLD
Soviet Notes
The foreword was written by Bertrand Russell
London 1953, Griffin Publications Ltd. pp. 234, [6]; format 13.5 x 20.5 cm
HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER. COVERS BORDERED IN GOLD AND BLIND BORDER. SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, EMBOSSING AND GILT . HAND-COLORED PAPER MARBLED ON ENDPAPERS, ALL CARD TRIMS MARBLED
First edition.
Another World. Zapiski sowieckie - memoirs of Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, written in 1949-1950, first published in English translation in 1951 (titled A World Apart: a Memoir of the Gulag), and then for the first time in Polish in 1953 in London (in Poland the book was first published in 1988). The work belongs to the circle of camp literature, being a literary elaboration of the author's memoirs of his imprisonment in the gulag in Yercegov near Arkhangelsk in 1940-1942.
BDB condition/ A NICE piece
