NABOKOV'S NOVELS IN ENGLISH
Athens: Georgia, 1983. Hardcover. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 177 pp. w/ index. A scholarly work covering the eight novels in English. Fine in Fine DJ (in removable archival protective covers).
Vladimir Nabokov
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NABOKOV'S NOVELS IN ENGLISH
Athens: Georgia, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 177 pp. w/ index. A scholarly work covering the eight novels in English. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket (in removable archival protective covers).
DESPAIR
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. First UK edition. Hardcover. The first British edition of the second translation from the Russian by the author (the first published in 1937). The U.S. edition was published two months earlier; this is the least common of the two, part of the uniform series published.....
THE EYE
New York: Phaedra, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Advanced Review copy in limp covers with the hardcover jacket (first issue with price intact, address (Trident) on the rear flap) of the first edition in English. Phaedra was a small publisher happy to take works that VN's regular publisher at the time.....
KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First American edition. Hardcover. Second state: the first state (A9.2, state a) was defective and destroyed, although copies according to the bibliographer are not hard to find. Copies with a bright dust jacket are getting harder to find though, and this copy although it shows a......
LOLITA: A Screenplay
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 213 pp. One of the least common of the VN McGraw-Hill titles, this was the author's own film script written for Stanley Kubrick. This version has still never been filmed. An especially fine copy, in a very.....
MARY
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 114 pp. The first edition in English of the author's first novel, translated by Michael Glenny in collaboration with the author. Based on his first lover Valentina Shulgin who he first met in the Summer of 1915;.....
NABOKOV'S CONGERIES
New York: Viking Press, 1968. First edition (Juliar A39.1). Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 536 pp. A volume similar to the Viking Portables with selections from DESPAIR, INVITATION TO A BEHEADING, THE GIFT and SPEAK, MEMORY and the complete PNIN, as well as essays, stories and poems. With.....
THE NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 346 pp. w/ index. Edited, Annotated and with an Introductory Essay by Simon Karlinsky. Fine in a fine Dust jacket (in Brodart protective cover).
THE WALTZ INVENTION
New York: Phaedra, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 111 pp. Juliar's variant a (based on the Library of Congress deposit copies) of five variants of this play originally published in Paris in Russian in 1938. It was first performed (in Russian) in 1968. The light.....
CANTO: ; Review of the Arts, Volume 1, Number 1
Andover, MA: Canto, Spring 1977. First Edition. Paperback. The first issue of this literary magazine with an essay by J. D. O'Hara on Nabokov (pp. 146-155), a review of Heaney's NORTH by W. M. Spackman, and poems by Allen Grossman, Daryl Hine, Thom Gunn, James Merrill, among others. Bottom rear.....
NABOKOV AND THE NOVEL
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. Second Printing. Hardcover. Second Printing. The last few end papers glued to the back flap - not affecting print (seems to be common with this edition - can be cut), otherwise fine in a lightly spine-toned else fine dust jacket.
NABOKOV'S DECEPTIVE WORLD
New York: NYU Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Brick-colored cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 193 pp. w/ index. Early scholarly work in the master. Near fine in very good dust jacket (in removable archival protective covers). 193 pp. w/index.
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