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
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
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
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
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
Princeton University Press, December 1999. First Edition. Cloth. Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of..... 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
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in very good dust jacket. Black cloth spine with gold lettering & black paper covered boards. Clean text without markings. 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
Knopf, November 2009. First American. 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..... More
McGraw-Hill Book Co, January 1975. Paper Back. Octavo (Five & 1/2-inch x Eight-inches) Rubbing to cover. Darkening & stains to textblock edges. Clean interior text: no markings. More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. Cloth. Revised edition (1st thus) in mildly edgeworn jacket with foxing/tanning to verso & darkening to margins & edges. Heavy foxing to textblock edges (top & fore-edge): small 1/4 inch brown stain bottom edge. 'Sketch Map of the Nabokov Lands in the St. Petersburg Region' &..... More
Vintage, December 2013. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Vladimir Nabokov's earliest major work, written when he was twenty-four, is a full-length play in verse of Shakespearean beauty and richness. The story of an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has..... 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
