PASTERNAK BORIS (1890-1960) 1) Detstvo Lyuvers: Povest // Nashi dni: Khudozhestvennye al'manakhi , 1922. 2) Gorod: Otryvki tselogo, 1920. 3)Povest, 1934] 4) Na starykh poezdah, 1943
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1) Detstvo Lyuvers: Povest [Childhood at Lyuvers: A Tale] // Nashi dni: Khudozhestvennye al'manakhi [Our days: Art Almanacs]; pod red. V. Veresaeva. No. 1. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1922. Pp. 121-171; 25x17 cm. Edition of 5,000 copies.
First publication of the tale.
In a composite owner's binding: leather corners and spine, leatherette on the covers. The ornamental publisher's cover is preserved. In good condition. Minor wear on the cover, corners of the cover and first pages repaired, a sticker residue on the reverse of the front cover.
2) Gorod: Otryvki tselogo [The City: Fragments of a Whole] // Liren. [Moscow, 1920]. Pp. 15-17; 16x12 cm.
First publication of the poem.
In a typographic publisher's cover by M. Sinyakova. Publisher's mark by B. Korvin-Kamenskaya. In good condition. Minor stains on the cover.
Bibliography:
Lesman, No. 1361;
Rozanov, No. 4851.
3)Povest [Novel]. [Leningrad]: iz-vo pisateley v Leningrade, [1934]. - 102 p.: ill.; 17.5 cm. Edition of 10,500 copies.
Eight full-page lithographed illustrations by V. Konashevich. In publisher's full leather binding by M. Kirnarsky. In good condition. Minor soiling on the binding, loss of dust jacket, owner's inscription on the upper cover.
Bibliography:
Lesman. No. 1737.
4) Na starykh poezdah. [On Early Trains: New Poems.] Moscow: Sovetsky Pisatel, 1943. - 52 p.; 15 cm. Edition of 3,000 copies.
In a typographic publisher's cover. In good condition. Minor wear on the cover, rust from staple.
Bibliography:
Turchinsky. p. 416;
Rozanov. No. 3593.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) was a Russian poet, writer, and one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.