Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1958 • Pantheon • 7th Print w/ $5 Jacket Price

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 

FIRST EDITON [1958] PANTHEON

7th printing / December 1958.   

*True first edition with original jacket price of $5.00 on front panel. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Dust jacket has some torn edges to lower rear; a few small sealed tears.  Otherwise, very clean, vibrant and fully in tact.   Front panel with original jacket price.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  

Book itself is stunning; looks and reads like new.   

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.

Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel. .