Boris Pasternak; Max Hayward [trans.]; Manya Harari [trans.]
Doctor Zhivago
London, Collins and Harvill Press, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Boris Pasternak's celebrated historical novel, set in the years between the Russian Revolution and the Second World War. The first UK edition, first impression. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Owing to the author's critical stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago was refused publication in the USSR, and was initially published in Italy in 1957.The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the 1905Â revolution and World War II. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, bright. Spotting to text block fore edge. Significant spotting and remnants of adhesive tape to front and rear pastedown and endpapers. Dust wrapper lightly age toned to back strip, with significant losses of paper to back strip head and tail. Light handling marks to tail of rear wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, but with significant spotting to first and last few leaves. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.

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