PASTERNAK BORIS (1890-1960) Izbrannye perevody. [Selected Translations.] M.: Sovetskiy Pisatel, 1940.

198, [2] p.: ill., 1 l. front.; 20x13.9 cm. Edition of 10,000 copies. Designed by L. Epple. Frontispiece with a portrait of Heinrich von Kleist (phototype). publisher's buckram binding with colour blind embossing on the upper cover. On the second endpaper, an ownerships signature: "Happy New Year, 42! V. and A.K." The collection includes works by Kleist, Shakespeare, Byron, Paul Verlaine, and other writers translated by Boris Pasternak. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) was a Russian poet, writer, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize laureate in literature (1958). Bibliography: Turchinskiy. P. 416; Rozanov. No. 3591; Lesman. No. 1749.