Anchor/Doubleday, 1958. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original. Stated 'First Edition'. Edgeworn cover, especially heavy at bottom edge of front panel. Pink blotch middle of rear panel is approximately one and one-half inch diameter. [210 pages plus four page list of available Anchor titles]. More
The Viking Press, September 1968. First American. Hardcover. Jacket not clipped but a bit creased and with small dampstain on interior along bottom of spine, not affecting book. More
Popular Library, November 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, mass market printing of 12 excellent VN short stories. Darkening to verso of cover pages front and back. [158 pp.]. More
Library of America, October 1996. First Thus. Hardcover. This Library of America volume is the second of three volumes presenting the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita (1955), Nabokov's single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely..... More
Library of America, October 1996. First Thus. Cloth. This Library of America volume is the first of three volumes presenting the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Vladimir Nabokov wrote in English, published..... More
Mariner Books, October 1990. Trade Paperback. Over four hundred letters chronicle the author's career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife. Previous owner's name. Minor shelfwear. 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
Vintage, December 1996. Trade Paperback. Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form..... More
Chelsea House, June 1987. Hardcover. A collection of six critical essays on Faulkner's Light in August, arranged in chronological order of their original publication. More
Princeton University Press, August 1990. Hardcover. This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of 20th-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian..... More
Verso, January 2010. 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 that run..... 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
Vintage, 1997. Trade Paperback. "Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. Reprint. Cloth. 3rd printing. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Moderate wear of edges. One tiny nick to cloth along spine edge. Smudge spots to cloth covering front and back, highly visible under bright light. Crimson end pages. Previous owner's name inked FFEP..... 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 Edition. 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
Bloomsbury Academic, July 2014. Trade Paperback. Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways in which the works of Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, penetrate the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the finest English..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 2005. Trade Paperback. The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to the creative world of one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Fourteen individual essays cover such topics as Nabokov's storytelling techniques, his achievements as a short story writer, his evolution as a...... More
William Morrow, January 1980. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. A bit of jacket wear. More
Vintage, May 1995. Trade Paperback. From the author of Time's Arrow and London Fields comes a book that covers politics, literature, and sports while offering felicitous summations of Ronald Reagan, the murder of John Lennon, Madonna, and more. "Amis is . . .a force unto himself . . .There is..... 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
Simon & Schuster, March 2017. Hardcover. An NPR Best Book of 2017: "A hell of a lot of fun." --NPR One of Lit Hub's "The Best Books About Books" "Enlightening." --The Wall Street Journal Data meets literature in this brilliant new look at our favorite authors and their masterpieces: Do..... More
Columbia University Press, November 2011. Hardcover. At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American..... More
