Doubleday Anchor, June 1958. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A 'Doubleday Anchor Original'. This Nabokov translation of the Mikhail Lermontov (aka Mihail) (1814 - 1841) was originally published by Anchor. Mildly cocked spine with creasing (not cracked) ; Soiling (espeically to back cover) and damp stains. (210 pages with 4..... More
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
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
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
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
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
Fawcett Crest T1287, January 1969. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A few pen markings throughout book; mild foxing on covers. 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
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
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
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
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine. In edgeworn dust jacket. NOT price clipped: with original British price on flap. Clean, solid. Inked initial & a date of previous owner on half title page & title page. Top edge tinted..... 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
Poetry Editions London, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition of Nabokov's first English language novel. 12mo. In good+/very good jacket with darkening & small chipping at top of spine and tiny chips at 3 out of 8 available corners. NOT price clipped. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine..... 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
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. First American. Cloth. First/first in dust jacket with only the slightest edgewear. Tiny (one quarter inch) closed tear top jacket end rear panel toward fore-edge. NOT price clipped: original price of $5.95 on flap. Tan end pages & tan tinted top edge. Clean & sound all..... More
