Doubleday & Company / Anchor Books, January 1957. First Edition. Paper Back. 16mo. (Four & 1/8th-inches x Seven & 1/8th-inches); edgeworn wrapper with rubbing & mild dark stains & toning. One-half inch closed tear front panel fore-edge. Slight bow to spine. Cover in clear mylar cut to fit this title..... More
Everyman's Library, July 1992. Cloth. In its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin-the archetypal Russian antihero-Lermontov's..... 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
Olympia Press / Traveller's Companion, November 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd printing. Two volumes. Darkening to edges. Some foxing & dark spots/foxing. Worn at margins. 190 pages, part one; 223 pages, part two. 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
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
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
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
McGraw-Hill Book Co, January 1970. Cloth. Second printing US edition in very good+ dust jacket: NOT price clipped. Original price of $6.95 on flap. In black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Blind stamp lettering on boards. Tan end pages. Lilac tinted top edge. Clean & bright & sound very..... More
Gingko Press, September 2011. Hardcover. Many think Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov's greatest novel. At its heart beats the 999-line poem, "Pale Fire," penned by the distinguished American poet John Shade. This first-ever facsimile edition of the poem shows it to be not just a fictional device but a masterpiece of..... 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
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 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
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First American. Hardcover. Firsr/first in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped: original price $7.95 on flap. Red end pages. Clean, sound very good overall. 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
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
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
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
