8vo. (Hinges tender, some spotting to endpapers.) Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; dust jacket (spotting, chipping). Provenance: Minerva Bookshop (booksellers' rubberstamp on pastedown).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel for Literature. Doctor Zhivago was first published in Italy in 1957 after the USSR refused to publish it owing to the author's critical stance on the October Revolution.