THE POEMS OF DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
by PASTERNAK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG/VG
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1967* Publisher: Hallmark Editions.* Binding and cover condition: Patterned brown cloth, light cream title to spine & face with decorative background. Minor bumps & rubs to tail of spine, absolutely minimal shelf wear to corners. Boards slightly dished. VG* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing the country house at Varykino, from the motion picture, in the snow. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $2.50. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head of spine, slightly more to tail. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned sepia-tone end-papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Several full-page sepia tone illustrations within text.* Pages: 61 pp. text. i pp. epilogue, advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Thus, within the framework of his magnificent novel Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak creating these evocative poems attributed to his title character. As an integral part of the book, Pasternak?s poems illustrate Zhivago?s view of the world. Apart from the novel, they are moving thoughts from the heart of a man in love with life.* A NEAR FINE copy with minor wear. Now in protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2591
- Title
- THE POEMS OF DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
- Author
- PASTERNAK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus,
- Publisher
- HALLMARK
- Place of Publication
- Kansas City, USA. 62
- Date Published
- 1967-01-01
- Size
- 19.3 x 11.7 x 1.3 cm
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