A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak
by Ivinskaya, Olga and Heyward, Max (transl.)
- Used
- Condition
- very good: scuffing to corners of boards, offset, some toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./very good: edge and corner wear/scuffing, NOT clipped.
- ISBN 10
- 0385127316
- ISBN 13
- 9780385127318
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday and Company, 1978. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good: scuffing to corners of boards, offset, some toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./very good: edge and corner wear/scuffing, NOT clipped.. 8vo 462pp. Index, Source of Quotations, Appendices, Biographical Guide, +pictures. Stated first edition, but blind stamp at base of spine rear board and gutter code HB2H indicates BCE. From front flap: "She is "Lara"--Boris Pasternak's model for the unforgettable heroine of Doctor Zhivago. She shared the last fourteen years of Pasternak's life, and he immortalized her in the crowning work of his brilliant, turbulent career. Now Olga Ivinskaya tells the remarkable story of their time and their love together." #01045.
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- Seller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 966
- Title
- A Captive of Time
- Author
- Ivinskaya, Olga and Heyward, Max (transl.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: scuffing to corners of boards, offset, some toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- very good: edge and corner wear/scuffing, NOT clipped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385127316
- ISBN 13
- 9780385127318
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- memoir, autobiography, nonfiction, first edition, boris pasternak, doctor zhivago
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Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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