Doctor Zhivago. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1958. First English Language Edition. Pp, 510. Red cloth boards in publisher’s multi-coloured dust jacket. Head of jacket a little frayed, but overall a nice bright copy in publisher’s dust jacket.

With a postcard drawing of Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninov by Leonid Pasternak (the author’s father) Inscribed on verso with note from Lydia Pasternak (the author’s sister):

With the season’s greetings and wishing you all a very happy healthy and peaceful 1972! (Please “support” my book, by buying copies for your friends, i.e. making the shops have them in stock! Hope you like it!) Blessings, Lydia”.

Lydia Pasternak (1902-1989) was an author, poet, translator, and research chemist. She became the preeminent translator of her brother Boris’s poetry into English, & also wrote short stories and critical articles about her brother’s work and the art of translation.

A lovely copy of this classic Russian tale made famous by the 1965 movie starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie.