The Gulag Archipelago

No book-club issue of the YMCA-Press Russian volumes is documented — they were émigré-published in wrappers and smuggled, not club-distributed. On the American side the tell is the copyright-page "First Edition" statement, which later Harper & Row printings drop. Two reprint traps: sets offered as "the 1973 first edition" that in fact combine a 1973 volume 1 with 1974 and 1975 volumes are correct as issued, but a volume 2 or 3 dated 1973 is not; and the widely circulated later one-volume abridgement is a first thus, not a first edition.