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
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
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
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
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
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
Princeton University Press, January 1993. Trade Paperback. 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. 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
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
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
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
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
Harvest Books, April 1984. Trade Paperback. A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with..... 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
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
Knopf, March 2013. Hardcover. For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov's earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy. "The Tragedy of Mister Morn" was written in the winter of 1923---1924, when..... More
