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PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich (1890-1960). Stikhot

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Leningrad: "Khudozhestveniya Leteratura," 1935. 440 pp. Small 8vo (195 x 140 mm). Color frontispiece by N. Dmitrovskii. Original gilt-lettered embossed pale green cloth. Condition: previous owner's inscription on recto of frontispiece; spine and covers discolored, toning to endpapers; second edition of the nobel prize winner's collected poems, limited to 1000 copies. Long before the clandestine publication of Doctor Zhivago in 1957, Pasternak was known as one of the greatest Russian poets of his generation. The book opens with his most famous cycle of poems Sestra moya zhizn [My Sister-Life] (1922), one of the most influential books of modern Russian literature.

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