Pasternak: A Pictorial Biography
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Berthoff Books, Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.Berthoff Books
AbeBooks seller since June 20, 2019
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 16.00
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143 pages, with biographical chronology, index of names, notes on the pictures. Black and white photos and facsimiles (mss., newspaper headlines), both full-page and cuts, throughout. Translated from German; the author was Moscow correspondent of West German Radio and Television. The turmoil around the publication of Dr. Zhivago and the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Pasternak is featured. 7-1/2" x 9-1/2", olive cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear (corners sharp), dust soil to top edge, touches of faint foxing to end papers, in unclipped DJ with wear to edges, foxing and soil. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia observed on seven pages. Two newspaper clippings are laid in: a photo of Pasternak, and a review by Marc Slonim from the NYT Book Review (1959) of two books of translations of P's poems.
Seller Inventory # WBB-1105
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Pasternak: A Pictorial Biography
- Author
- Gerd Ruge, tr. Beryl and Joseph Avrach
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Publication year
- 1959
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Russian and Soviet history, politics, economics, Russian and Soviet literature
Berthoff Books
Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 20, 2019
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Offering used books that formerly belonged to the late Warner Berthoff (1925-2018), Prof. of English and American Literature at Bryn Mawr College and Harvard University, the late Ann E. Berthoff (1924-2022), Prof. of English at U. Mass.-Boston, or members of their family.
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Berthoff Books
WV, U.S.A.
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