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Pasternak: A Pictorial Biography
by Gerd Ruge, tr. Beryl and Joseph Avrach
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-1105
- Title
- Pasternak: A Pictorial Biography
- Author
- Gerd Ruge, tr. Beryl and Joseph Avrach
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOVEL PRIZE, DR. ZHIVAGO, RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics; Biography; Russian and Soviet literature;
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Our standard domestic shipping rate is for USPS Media Mail shipments weighing up to 2 lb. Books are packaged in bubble-pack envelopes or a cardboard box with moisture protection. International shipping rates are for packages weighing up to 2 lb (0.9 kg). Heavier or oversized items may incur a shipping surcharge, which will be stated to the buyer before finalization of the transaction. Shipping charge may be reduced on some books weighing less than 1 lb to U.S. addresses. International Priority shipping charges may be reduced on books that fit in a USPS small flat-rate box. International Standard (First-Class Package International) shipping charges may be reduced for a second or more books if the total package weight does not exceed 2 lb. Shipping speeds are estimates based on carrier delivery times and cannot be guaranteed. If your order will pass through Customs, please expect a delay. Any applicable Customs duties or brokerage fees are the responsibility of the buyer.
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Berthoff Books
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
About Berthoff Books
Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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