Boris Pasternak — Doctor Zhivago

London, Collins and Harvill Press, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition, second impression of Boris Pasternak's important historical novel, set between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II. First UK edition, second impression.Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This celebrated novel follows the eponymous Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, during the years between the 1905 Russian Revolution and World War II. From Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the year following this publication. Owing to his critical stance on the October Revolution, the novel was refused publication in the USSR, smuggled to Milan and first published there. In the original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with only a hint of bumping to the spine. Dust wrapper is smart, with slight dusting to the wrap and edge wear, resulting in minor loss to the heads and tails of the spine and folds. Short closed tear to the rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with minor offsetting to the endpapers and a contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good.