PASTERNAK, B.L. (1890–1960) Poeziya: izbrannoe ['Poetry: Selected Works']. Frankfurt am Main: Posev, 1960.

422 pp.; 19 × 13.5 cm. Publisher’s wrappers. Cover and portrait by V. Barsov. Good condition. Minor wear and soiling to the wrappers. The book was issued in two variants: in wrappers and in a binding with dust-jacket. Published in connection with the poet’s award of the Nobel Prize and the campaign against him in the USSR. Pasternak was aware of the plans for this edition. Originally intended for the poet’s 70th birthday, it ultimately appeared shortly before his death. The volume includes poems from the collections ‘Poverkh bar’erov’, ‘Sestra moya zhizn’’, ‘Temy i variatsii’, ‘Vtoroe rozhdenie’, ‘Na rannikh poezdakh’, ‘Zemnoy prostor’, ‘Doktor Zhivago’, ‘Kogda razgulyayetsya’, as well as excerpts from the poems ‘Spektorskiy’, ‘Devyatsot pyatyy god’ and ‘Leytenant Shmidt’. Poems of 1959 are published here for the first time. The last lifetime book of Boris Pasternak.