Pasternak, Boris - Signed Poems in Doctor Zhivago 1948 Programs Music Signed Strings American soprano (1912-2005)

American soprano (1912-2005)

widely recorded in a wide range of Italian and French operas

and his extensive recordings

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French baritone (1925-2009)

Pasternak, Boris - Signed Poems in Doctor Zhivago 1948 Programs Music Signed Strings American soprano (1912-2005)Russian poet, novelist and literary translator (1890 1960), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, after his novel Doctor Zhivago was published outside Russia due to a government ban. Signed carbon copy of 10 poems, later published in Doctor Zhivago (1957), 20 pages (rectos only), original tan wrappers, size is 6. 75 x 9 inches. Inscribed to Iuri Aleksandrovich Afanasiev, a leading reformist intellectual appointed rector of the State History and Archives