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PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich (1890-1960). Doktor Zhivago. Milan: Feltrinelli, 1957 [but 1958].
The first trade edition in Russian of this celebrated novel, in an attractive example of the dust-jacket. Gian Giacomo Feltrinelli, although an active communist, smuggled the manuscript out of the USSR, resisted pressure against its publication, and brought wide acclaim to his publishing house when he was first to publish Zhivago, in an Italian translation, in 1957. After winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, Pasternak was forbidden by the Soviet authorities to accept it, and saw his works suppressed in Russia. Cataloguers usually describe this edition as published in 1957, based on the date printed on the verso of the title; in fact, it was printed in late 1958.
Octavo (213 x 139mm). (Margins faintly yellowed, as often.) Original green paper-covered boards, the spine and front cover printed in black; original illustrated dust-jacket (dust-jacket with minor wear and very small chips at the corners). Provenance: short gift inscription on the title, signed Benoit, Milan, 7 September 1960.
The first trade edition in Russian of this celebrated novel, in an attractive example of the dust-jacket. Gian Giacomo Feltrinelli, although an active communist, smuggled the manuscript out of the USSR, resisted pressure against its publication, and brought wide acclaim to his publishing house when he was first to publish Zhivago, in an Italian translation, in 1957. After winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, Pasternak was forbidden by the Soviet authorities to accept it, and saw his works suppressed in Russia. Cataloguers usually describe this edition as published in 1957, based on the date printed on the verso of the title; in fact, it was printed in late 1958.
Octavo (213 x 139mm). (Margins faintly yellowed, as often.) Original green paper-covered boards, the spine and front cover printed in black; original illustrated dust-jacket (dust-jacket with minor wear and very small chips at the corners). Provenance: short gift inscription on the title, signed Benoit, Milan, 7 September 1960.
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