Boris Pasternak
Stikhotvoreniya i poemy.
Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1965. Biblioteka Poeta, bol'shaya seriya, vtoroe izdanie. Introductory essay by A. D. Sinyavskii, edited, with commentary, by L. A. Ozerov. 729 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", is bound in ornamental blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
Soviet collection of the poetry of Russian writer Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.
Introductory text is by Russian writer and Soviet dissident Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (1925-1997), a literary critic for Novy Mir and an author of works critical of Soviet society published under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. Sinyavsky emigrated to France in 1973.