Hardcover
1958 · New York
by Pasternak, Boris (translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)
New York: Pantheon. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1958. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [a very presentable copy, with no significant wear to book but some uneven age-toning to edges of text block (apparently from variant paper stocks); the jacket shows minor wear to extremities, with minor chipping at top of spine and at upper rear hinge, and short splits (about 1"-1.5") at lower hinges]. The Pasternak classic of a doctor-poet's travails during and after the Russian Revolution, memorably filmed by David Lean in 1965. After Soviet censors refused to permit the novel's publication in the U.S.S.R., a smuggled copy of the manuscript served as the basis for (truncated)