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Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1959. Second printing of Rausen 'Michigan' edition. Original cloth, gilt lettered, 567pp.. Owner inscription (name blacked out, Chicago 1964) to front free endpaper. Scrape resulting in tear to dust-wrapper on upper cover, dust-wrapper yellowing at edges but not greatly. Apart from tear to d.w. a very good, bright and tight copy. In original brick-red cloth, with dust-wrapper designed by Ronald Stachowiak, priced at $6.50 (Kroch and Brentano label) and with 'Michigan' in Roman and Cyrillic lettering to spine base. The first 5,000 printed were published without a dust-wrapper and spine printed only with author and title. These were over-subscribed and therefore quickly reprinted. The second printing went out in a dust-wrapper. The two printings contain minor typographical differences. The contract to publish the first printing (supposed to be 1958) was actually only fully signed on 31st December 1959. See Mancosu p. 159

Milano Milan: Feltrinelli Editore, 1957 [1959]. Hardcover. G+. Publication April or May 1959. Original pale green paper-covered boards, lettered in black with publisher's mark in black to spine, echoed on dust-wrapper. 'Prima edizione in lingua italiana:novembre 1957... ' to half-title verso. Ampelio Tettamanti illustrated dust-wrapper (c.f. Feltrinelli 1957 Italian edition). Price of 42s. net. to front flap. Contents list numbered p.567. Book good but paper rather browned, fore-edges age-soiled, mild damp spotting to endpapers. Fragile dust-wrapper chipped at edges and with small tear to spine. Significant publication. First published in this form at the end of April 1959 or beginning of May. Much has been published on the early editions of Dr Zhivago as the accuracy of the text caused much dispute as well as the legalities of publication. Although Feltrinelli had a contract with Pasternak to be the first to publish the Russian edition (after the Italian translation in 1957), there exists both… Read More

Milano Milan: Feltrinelli Editore, 1957 [1959]. Hardcover. VG. First Russian edition. Publication April or May 1959. The hand-written date on the f.e.p. may even refer to the publication date. Original pale green paper-covered boards, lettered in black with publisher's mark in black to spine, echoed on dust-wrapper. 'Prima edizione in lingua italiana:novembre 1957... ' to half-title verso. Ampelio Tettamanti illustrated dust-wrapper (c.f. Feltrinelli 1957 Italian edition). Price of 42s. net. to front flap. Contents list numbered p.567. Inscribed "To Nina with much love Wanda, 1959". Book in very good condition. Fragile dust-wrapper very neatly reinforced inside edges and folds. Usual browning of paper-edges and off-setting to endpapers. Significant publication. First published in this form at the end of April 1959 or beginning of May. Much has been published on the early editions of Dr Zhivago as the accuracy of the text caused much dispute as well as the legalities of publication. Although… Read More

The third edition of Pasternak's novel (after the appearance of the Michigan and Milan editions), reportedly financed by the CIA and published by Boris Filippov under a fictitious imprint in early May 1959. In their recent book on the complicated publishing history of the novel, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Books, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée write: "The CIA attempted to create the illusion that this edition of the novel was published in Paris by ascribing publication to a fictitious entity that was called the Societe d'Edition et d'Impression Mondiale. Some of these copies were subsequently distributed by the NTS (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists) the militant Russian émigré group in Germany, another measure to hide the CIA's involvement, although the agency's released records don't mention the organization." Printed both as a single volume and a two-volume set, this edition is a reduced-size reproduction of the Mouton version and… Read More