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PASTERNAK, Boris (1890-1960) – GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Iogann-Vol’fgang Gete.
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PASTERNAK, Boris (1890-1960) – GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Iogann-Vol’fgang Gete. Izbrannye Proizvedeniia. [The Collected works.] Edited by N. Vil’mont. Moscow: Gos. Izdat. khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1950. 4° (259 x 200mm). Portrait frontispiece and vignettes. (Margins yellowed.) Original green cloth, spine and front cover stamped in black, gold, and blind (hinges and joints repaired with tape). Provenance: Boris Pasternak (presentation inscription to:) – Nina Tabidze.
PRESENTATION COPY WARMLY INSCRIBED BY PASTERNAK TO NINA TABIDZE, in Russian: ‘to my precious friend Nina Tabidze. Combine intelligence, bravery, taste, pride with all that is and isn’t required in this world. How much we have in common in life! B. Pasternak. 20 May 1950. Moscow’. Tabidze was married to the poet Titsian Tabidze, leader of the Georgian Symbolists, who was murdered in Stalin’s purge of 1937. Pasternak was very close to the Tabidzes, and translated the poet’s works into Russian; he maintained an extensive correspondence with Nina following Titsian’s death. This collected edition of Goethe includes Pasternak’s translation for the first part of Faust, and a number of poems.
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PRESENTATION COPY WARMLY INSCRIBED BY PASTERNAK TO NINA TABIDZE, in Russian: ‘to my precious friend Nina Tabidze. Combine intelligence, bravery, taste, pride with all that is and isn’t required in this world. How much we have in common in life! B. Pasternak. 20 May 1950. Moscow’. Tabidze was married to the poet Titsian Tabidze, leader of the Georgian Symbolists, who was murdered in Stalin’s purge of 1937. Pasternak was very close to the Tabidzes, and translated the poet’s works into Russian; he maintained an extensive correspondence with Nina following Titsian’s death. This collected edition of Goethe includes Pasternak’s translation for the first part of Faust, and a number of poems.
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PASTERNAK, Boris (1890-1960) – GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Iogann-Vol’fgang Gete. Izbrannye Proizvedeniia. [The Collected works.] Edited by N. Vil’mont. Moscow: Gos. Izdat. khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1950. 4° (259 x 200mm). Portrait frontispiece and vignettes. (Margins yellowed.) Original green cloth, spine and front cover stamped in black, gold, and blind (hinges and joints repaired with tape). Provenance: Boris Pasternak (presentation inscription to:) – Nina Tabidze.
PRESENTATION COPY WARMLY INSCRIBED BY PASTERNAK TO NINA TABIDZE, in Russian: ‘to my precious friend Nina Tabidze. Combine intelligence, bravery, taste, pride with all that is and isn’t required in this world. How much we have in common in life! B. Pasternak. 20 May 1950. Moscow’. Tabidze was married to the poet Titsian Tabidze, leader of the Georgian Symbolists, who was murdered in Stalin’s purge of 1937. Pasternak was very close to the Tabidzes, and translated the poet’s works into Russian; he maintained an extensive correspondence with Nina following Titsian’s death. This collected edition of Goethe includes Pasternak’s translation for the first part of Faust, and a number of poems.
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PRESENTATION COPY WARMLY INSCRIBED BY PASTERNAK TO NINA TABIDZE, in Russian: ‘to my precious friend Nina Tabidze. Combine intelligence, bravery, taste, pride with all that is and isn’t required in this world. How much we have in common in life! B. Pasternak. 20 May 1950. Moscow’. Tabidze was married to the poet Titsian Tabidze, leader of the Georgian Symbolists, who was murdered in Stalin’s purge of 1937. Pasternak was very close to the Tabidzes, and translated the poet’s works into Russian; he maintained an extensive correspondence with Nina following Titsian’s death. This collected edition of Goethe includes Pasternak’s translation for the first part of Faust, and a number of poems.
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