Doubleday, Garden City, January 1957. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 16mo. (Four & 1/8th-inches x Seven & 1/8th-inches); Darkening of spine & margins.Dark stain back cover panel and small surface tear bottom edge of same panel. Rubbing and another small stain front cover panel. Includes 'A long excerpt from: Lolita.'..... More
Doubleday & Company / Anchor Books, January 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkening & foxing to spine & margins. Dust stained textblock edges. Clean, unmarked interior pages. (308 pages & four page list of available Anchor titles.). More
Fawcett Crest Book, October 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with bowed, slightly leaning spine. Moderate shelfwear. Rose red tinted textblock edges. [445 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
Vintage, 1997. Trade Paperback. "Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe..... 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
Library of America, October 1996. First Thus. Cloth. This Library of America volume is the first of three volumes presenting the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Vladimir Nabokov wrote in English, published..... 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
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
POCKET Cardinal, September 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. Moderate shelfwear. Edgewear including quite noticable chip along fore-edge on front panel near bottom. 4 pieces of clear scotch tape (darkened) attached to front and rear panel at the fore-edge. Rose red tinted textblock edges. Some mild marginal damp staining of internal pages..... More
Vintage, 1960, January 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Well-worn paperback. Previous owner's name. More
