Boris Pasternak. First American edition, first printing. New York: Pantheon, 1958. Dust jacket is unclipped and in Very Good+ condition with original price $5.00 on inside flap. In a mylar protective wrapper. Jacket design by Ampelio Tettamante. Hardcover is in Very Good condition with some light discoloration on front cover. No writing or markings in the book, 558 pp.
Translated from Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. Ex-Libri sticker on inside cover. Front flyleaf page is separated but all pages are intact.
Doctor Zhivago is above all a stupendously rich and moving book. Like War and Peace, it evokes a historically crucial period in terms of a large variety of characters whose destinies are interwoven.
Doctor Zhivago was the first original work published by Pasternak after twenty five years of silence. Turned into an Oscar winning movie in 1965 starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature three years later.
