Pale Fire.

NABOKOV, Vladimir.

Item Number: 2488

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, top edge stained red. Near fine in an excellent price-clipped dust jacket that shows light wear. An attractive example.

"This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century" (Mary McCarthy).