Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich (1890 - 1960)	Doktor Zhivago. Roman, Paris, Societe d'Edition et d'Impression Mondiale 1959., 634 p.	€160,00

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12mo (15 cm). Original wrappers. Medium soil and spotting to wrappers and edges; text bright and clean. Two volumes The third edition of Pasternak's novel, reportedly financed by the CIA and other political organizations and published by Boris Filippov under a fictitious imprint in early May 1959, after the appearance of the Michigan and Milan editions. Printed both as a single volume and a two-volume set, this edition is a reduced-size reproduction of the Mouton version and includes a new anonymous preface (by Filippov, an important editor and publisher of the second wave of the emigration). It was published in a small format and on thin paper, making it easier to be illegally imported into the Soviet Union. It was this edition that was responsible for the novel's fame in the USSR in the 1960s. While the print run was allegedly anywhere between 10.000 and 100.000 copies, copies are now scarce.