Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Hardcover. In foxed dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price $3.50 on flap. Black cloth with yellow & pink lettering on spine. Darkening/foxing to textblock edges. More
Phaedra, August 1965. First American. Cloth. In dust jacket with marginal tanning & tiny (one quarter inch) tear top edge back panel. NOT price-clipped. Original price of $4.50 on flap. Grey cloth with black lettering on spine & facsimile signature printed likewise in black on front board. 'First Edition' stated..... More
University of Texas Press, April 1982. Cloth. In his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which "twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis is the thesis of the next series." The first four arcs of the spiral of Nabokov's life-his youth in Russia, voluntary exile..... More
McGraw-Hill, 1968. Book Club. Cloth. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Tattered & torn dust jacket. Three inch tear snaking from bottom of rear panel of jacket up the fold along spine. Another rough four inch tear starts at base of rear flap fold up & into the rear..... More
Olympia Press / Traveller's Companion, November 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd printing. Two volumes. Darkening to edges. Some foxing & dark spots/foxing. Worn at margins. 190 pages, part one; 223 pages, part two. More
Verso, January 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. On the eve of the controversial, posthumous publication of The Original of Laura, Michael Maar follows his critically acclaimed The Two Lolitas with a revealing new perspective on Vladimir Nabokov's life and work. Hunting down long-hidden clues in the novels, and using the themes..... More
Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First American. Cloth. First US edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price: 2.75 on flap. Very mild edgewear to jacket. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Faint fading to bottom edge of boards & spine edge top & bottom. Clean..... More
Doubleday, 1957. First American. Cloth. First/first in jacket with heavy foxing/darkening & edgewear. Very good+ clean black cloth boards with bright red & yellow lettering on spine. Rose red tinted top edge. Fore-edge foxing. End pages tanned. Text is clean without markings. Despite foxing, this is a very good, above..... More
Knopf, May 2012. First American. Cloth. Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English. These poems span the whole of Nabokov's career, from the..... More
Phaedra Press, February 1966. First American. Cloth. Blue cloth with black lettering on spine & black facsimile signature stamped on front board. In foxed/tanned dust jacket; NOT price clipped, original price of $4.95 on flap. Red end pages. Slight bow to boards. Small tear to rear flap fold (one quarter..... More
Phaedra Press, February 1966. First American. Cloth. First/first in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped with original price of $4.95. Blue cloth with black lettering. More
McGraw-Hill Book Co, January 1970. Cloth. Second printing US edition in very good+ dust jacket: NOT price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on flap. In black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Blind stamp lettering on boards. Tan end pages. Lilac tinted top edge. Clean & bright & sound very..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First American. Cloth. First/first. In dust jacket mildly tanned/darkened at spine & margins NOT price clipped: original price of $5.00 on flap. Black cloth cover with gold lettering: in very good condition. Green end pages. Sound binding without markings in text. Uncommon in this condition. More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First American. Cloth. First/first in dust jacket: NOT price clipped. Original price of $5 on flap. Some foxing/staining to dust jacket. Mauve end pages & tinted top edge of textblock. Purple end pages. Clean text. Good solid binding. Very good collector's copy of one of Nabokov's..... More
McGraw - Hill Book Company, January 1971. Book Club. Cloth. Book club edition in heavily foxed/darkened dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Red topstain to textblock. Tight binding. Laid in is 6 inch by 3 inch folded Book of the Month Club 'Report' on Nabokov reprinted..... More
Phaedra, February 1966. First American. Cloth. First/first in very good jacket: not price-clipped. Original price of $4.95 on flap. Blue cloth with black lettering on spine & black facsimile signature on front board. Inked date on front free end page & previous owner's bookplate affixed to same below date. Clean..... More
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Cloth. Price-clipped well worn dust jacket with closed tears & discoloration. Laid in slip that says: 'with the compliments of Doubleday & Compnay, Inc.' and signature of a book representative. Clean interiors without markings. Sound binding. Green cloth with gold lettering & butterfly..... More
Clarion Book/Simon & Schuster, January 1970. Paper Back. Excellent anthology of 50+ essays, reviews, and tributes of all things Nabokov. Short subset of 'translator/translation' pieces. Photo of V.N. on cover in white shorts with a net, of course! Contributors include Alfred Kazin, Andrew Field, Richard Gilman, John Barth, John Updike..... More
Ig Publishing, January 2021. Paper Back. "Birkerts reads Nabokov even as he allows Nabokov to read him. This is reading as high art, exhilarating and wise."--CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, author, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay "Much more than an exercise in literary criticism, this short book increasingly reads as a profound..... More
Little, Brown and Company, 1967. Cloth. 2nd printing in price clipped dust jacket. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Black end pages. Top textblock edge tinted red has a few age spots. More
Zoland Books, October 2000. First American. Hardcover. Vladimir Nabokov had no formal training in biology, but during the 1940s he was an acknowledged expert on "Blues," a family of butterflies that inhabit some of the remotest parts of Latin and South America. In 1945 he published a radical new classification..... More
Jonathan Cape Ltd, October 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light foxing on the top edge of the print block. Mylar wrapped. More
Harmony, February 1994. First American. Hardcover. First/first in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Complete number line. Clean, unmarked text. Red remainder dot top textblock edge. Red end pages. More
Harcourt, January 1981. First American. Cloth. Quarto in very good jacket. Red cloth with gold facsimile signature stamped front board & gold lettering on spine. Some wear to board edges at bottom. First edition/first printing. Stated 'First Edition B C D E': as stated on line site Quill & Brush..... More
Knopf, November 2009. Cloth. When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, "The Original of Laura." But Nabokov s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her..... More
