Doctor Zhivago

London: Collins, Harvill, (1958). First edition (British), 1st impression. 8vo. 510 pp. Original full crimson cloth-covered boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped (21s) dust-jacket. Light edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Some light general toning and foxing. Protected in archival mylar. Book is moderately sound, corners curled, page edges toned with some spot soiling and light foxing. Front paste down and front free end paper doctored, replaced. Front hinge cracked, webbing exposed. Moderate to heavy foxing to rear end papers. hinge exposed at page 509. Provenance available upon request.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Good

“Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II. Owing to the author's independent-minded stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago was refused publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the manuscript was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year, an event that embarrassed and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.”