Doctor Zhivago
PASTERNAK, Boris
Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. [First UK Edition.]
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION
Published: Collins, [1958]
Stock code: 49193
Price: £460.00
8vo., First Edition thus, faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Bright, crisp copy of the author's best-known novel; Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature three years later. The well-known dustwrapper design, inspired by Mondrian, is by John Woodcock. This book is the basis of David Lean's Oscar-winning feature film (1965) starring Julie Christie, Omar Sharif and Alec Guinness. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.