CONQUEST, Robert

The Pasternak Affair: Courage of Genius

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961. First American Edition. Small octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 192pp. Tight, clean, and unmarked - Near Fine. In the original photo-pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed at tips, Very Good+.

Very early work by the award-winning historian, documenting the international furore provoked by Pasternak's publication of Doctor Zhivago, the novel's suppression by Soviet censors, and Pasternak's decision (under threat of exile) to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Price: $45.00

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