Doctor Zhivago - By Boris Pasternak

Hardcover published by the Reprint Society, 1959. The jacket is whole, but edge-worn and the spine is sunned. The boards are clean, but the spine is cocked. Apart from the name of a previous owner in pen on the first end-paper, all pages are clean and unmarked. "This is the novel that Boris Pasternak wrote and his political enemies made world-famous. Indeed, it is notably in the matter of his friends and admirers that this distinguished author has been so unfortunate. For it was the well-merited award of the Nobel prize for literature - first gratefully accepted and then obediently declined - that lost Pasternak his reputation inside Russia; jeopardised his position and privileges and cost him his liberty temporarily, and his piece of mind presumably forever."