Ardis, January 2009. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests..... More
McGraw-Hill, January 1968. Book Club. Cloth. Octavo in tattered, torn dustjacket with darkened spine & margins. Clear scotch tape 'repair' to spine head. Quarter bound: black cloth spine with gold lettering along spine. Grey cloth covered boards. Red end pages. Red top stain. Previous owner's name in ink front free..... More
Beacon Press (MA), April 2000. Hardcover. Newly translated works by Nabokov on the twin passions of his life, literature and lepidoptera. A rich array of never-before-seen Nabokovia: novels, stories, poems, autobiography, interviews, diaries, and more, plus scientific and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field. The..... 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
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
Cornell University Press, February 2003. Hardcover. Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959. It was at Cornell that Nabokov composed Lolita and Pnin and conceived Pale Fire. During his Cornell tenure Nabokov also continued his research on lepidoptera, wrote the English and Russian versions of his autobiography..... 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
Oxford University Press, November 2002. Trade Paperback. Midway through the last century, Lolita burst on the literary scene--a Russian exile's extraordinary gift to American letters and the New World. The scandal provoked by the novel's subject--the sexual passion of a middle-aged European for a twelve-year-old American girl--was quickly upstaged by..... 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
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
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
Princeton University Press, September 1991. Hardcover. The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security. Shelfwear; pencilled notes; previous owner's..... More
Red Globe Press, September 2002. Trade Paperback. In this Readers' Guide, Christine Clegg examines the critical history of Lolita through a broad range of interpretations. Although early criticism of the text polarised around 'that' question - is is literature or pornography? - the influence of American critics such as Lionel..... More
Madison The University Of Wisconsin Press. January 1967. Paper Back. Sunned cover with dust stains and stray marks. Spine has moderate lean. Previous owners' names inked verso of cover and inside first page. There are side notes and underlining scattered here and there within text, mostly in pencil. Inked address..... More
Little, Brown and Co., January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. edition. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} Heavily edgeworn dustjacket with curl to edges, chips & tears. Repaired with clear tape. Damp stained bottom of front panel with red ink separation from cover to DJ verso. Front flap is not..... More
Penguin Books, June 1978. Trade Paperback. More
The Viking Press, June 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (US) edition in dustjacket with stains on verso. Not clipped. Quarter bound: black cloth spine with gold lettering and brick red paper covered boards. End pages are dark blue. Textblock edges are dust stained with some grey splotches top edge. Text..... More
Crown Publishers, September 1986. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Abrams Press, January 2003. Hardcover. History seemed to pursue Vladimir Nabokov. In the Russian Revolution and the Second World War he lost his homeland, social position and family, and was even forced to abandon working in his native language. Despite the shadow of exile, Nabokov's work exudes a tremendous vivacity..... More
McGraw-Hill Professional, March 2001. Trade Paperback. During the 1940s Vladimir Nabokov was an acknowldged experts in Blues, a diverse group of Latin American butterflies. This book, which is part biography, explores the worldwide crisis in biodiversity and the place of butterflies in Nabokov's fiction. Previous owner' name. More
University of California Press, April 2001. Paper Back. Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's correspondence to include fifty-nine letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. Since then, five volumes of Edmund Wilson's diaries have been published, as..... More
Permanent Pr Pub Co, June 1984. Trade Paperback. "The tone of this introductory portrait of Nabokov is pitched between elaborate Cliff's Notes style and a TriQuarterly interview. Includes two fine critical essays and the most extensive Nabokov bibliography yet published". -- Bloomsbury Review. Previous owner's name. Pencilled notes on endpapers..... 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
