From Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since January 11, 2000
About this Item
First impression of the first edition in English. English versions by Michael Harari. Bilingual dual-text poems in both Russian and English on facing pages throughout. ***Jacket design by John Woodcock. ***Near fine in bright red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Blue front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Very small gift inscription in navy blue fountain pen ink to top of front free endpaper: 'To Ron from Patricia'. Very small contemporaneous owner's name and date: 'R. Johnson Christmas 1960' in navy blue fountain pen ink to top of front pastedown under front dustwrapper flap. Paper very slightly browned. Spine tight. No foxing. Pages clean. ***In a near fine colour printed price-clipped dustwrapper. Titles to spine of dustwrapper slightly discoloured. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. Edges of inner dustwrapper flaps slightly browned. Tiny 2mm closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper near head of spine. Small closed tear to bottom edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. ***127 pages plus one page of notes to rear. 228mm x 146mm. ***'So far as is known these poems were the last Pasternak wrote. They were written between 1955 and 1959, after the completion of his novel Doctor Zhivago. Together with the novel and the Essay in Autobiography they belong to the last phase of his work which showed greater simplicity and directness than any of his earlier writings. ***The Cycle is entitled in Russian [---], an idiom which has no exact equivalent in English and means roughly "when the weather will be finer". The first thirty-four poems were completed in 1956 and, in an interview which Pasternak gave to foreign journalists in December 1938, he stressed his preference for his new manner and asked his foreign publishers to bring out this cycle. The remaining nine poems, headed [---] were completed in January 1959 and reached them that year.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first edition in English, in its original dustwrapper, in nice bright collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 3539z
Bibliographic Details
Title: POEMS 1955-1959 [First UK edition]
Publisher: Collins and Harvill Press, London
Publication Date: 1960
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: John Woodcock [Dustwrapper design]
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition in English
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