Three Letters from Boris Pasternak

One of an unknown number of copies given out as a seasonal gift by the publisher. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1967. Hardcover.Three Letters from Boris Pasternak includes the following: a letter to the widow of Paolo Yashvili, a letter on writing and translation, and a letter following his award and subsequent refusal of the Nobel Prize Letters to Tamara G. Yashvili, Simon I. and Mariechka Chikovani, and Georgy G. Margvelashvili.This limited edition First edition. Translated by David Magarshcak. The mass trials and indiscriminate executions of 1936-1937, which form so horrible a page in Russian history, claimed the lives of two of Pasternak's closest friends, the Georgian poets Titian Tabidze and Paolo Yashvili. Upon learning of Tabidze's arrest and rumored execution, Paolo, fearing a similar fate, killed himself. The letter than follows, one of the most moving that Pasternak wrote, is to Yashvili's widow. Issued as a New Year's Greeting. Bound in cloth and boards. The original glassine is present and discolored around the edges