Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, Collins & Harvill Press, 1958, First Edition, First Impression Adapted many times but most famously into a film in 1965 directed by David Lean starring Omar Sheriff, Julie Christie, Garaldine Chaplin and Alec Guiness. The film was a huge commercial success winning five Oscars. This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. The book is in very good condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. There is a crease mark to the top corner of the front board and the bottom corner of the back board. The slightly toned and foxed end papers and pages are free from marks, tears and inscriptions. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in fair condition with loss to all the corners, a tear to the top edge of the front cover which has been repaired, a tear to the bottom edge of the front cover which has been repaired, a tear to the edge of the front cover which has been repaired, tears, loss and nibbling to the top edge of the spine, loss and creasing to the bottom edge of the spine and loss to the corners of the back cover. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.