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First edition of Nabokov's memoir of his early life; From the Library of Cormac McCarthy
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR [CORMAC MCCARTHY].
Conclusive Evidence.
New York: Harper & Brothers 1951.
First edition of Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliantly written memoir of his youth. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of author Cormac McCarthy with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. An exceptional association.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145627
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The breaking of the wave cannot explain the whole sea": First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions 1941.
First edition, second issue of Nabokov’s first novel published in English. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144602
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Pnin.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company 1957.
First American edition of this ‘campus novel’, a subgenre which was beginning to manifest itself in the early Fifties. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144268
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“One is always at home in one's past": Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1966.
First revised edition of Nabokov’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 73054
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FIRST American EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Lolita.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1955.
First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 143981
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“One is always at home in one's past": Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Speak, Memory.
London: Victor Gollanz 1951.
First edition of Nabokov’s classic autobiography. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 142297
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“Solitude is the playfield of Satan": First Edition of Pale Fire
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Pale Fire.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1962.
First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 140795
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"Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines!" First edition of Nabokov's Transparent Things
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Transparent Things.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1972.
First edition of Nabokov’s 1972 novella. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Photographic portrait of Nabokov on the rare panel of dust jacket by Halsman.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 140097
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"All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they took photographs": First Edition of Pale Fire
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Pale Fire.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1962.
First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140076