first edition
1946 · London
by Pasternak, Boris
Small Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 187 x 125 mm), vi, 58 pages, in burgundy cloth, titles to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of the first English-language collection of Pasternak's poetry. Selected and translated from the Russian by J. M. Cohen and illustrated with woodcut vignettes by Donia Nachshen. This is the fourth volume in the publisher's Russian Literature Library and comprises a wide variety of Pasternak's poems, including selections from Themes and Variations (1917), My Sister's Life (1922), and Second Birth (1932).
CONDITION: Near Fine, with some fading to the spine lettering and slight foxing to a few pages, in a Near Fine dust jacket that shows slight edge wear and a bit of foxing to the verso of the jacket. Overall, a beautiful copy. SCARCE. (Inventory #: 803)
First edition of the first English-language collection of Pasternak's poetry. Selected and translated from the Russian by J. M. Cohen and illustrated with woodcut vignettes by Donia Nachshen. This is the fourth volume in the publisher's Russian Literature Library and comprises a wide variety of Pasternak's poems, including selections from Themes and Variations (1917), My Sister's Life (1922), and Second Birth (1932).
CONDITION: Near Fine, with some fading to the spine lettering and slight foxing to a few pages, in a Near Fine dust jacket that shows slight edge wear and a bit of foxing to the verso of the jacket. Overall, a beautiful copy. SCARCE. (Inventory #: 803)
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