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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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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 of Nabokov’s first novel published in English, one of only 1,500 copies printed. Octavo, original burlap weave. In fine condition. A very nice example.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 73096
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"No hands have wrought my monument; no weeds will hide the nation's footpath to its site": First edition of Nabokov's Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev.
New York: New Directions Books 1944.
First edition this collection of Nabokov’s translations of the major Russian poets. Octavo, original boards. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 118147
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"No hands have wrought my monument; no weeds will hide the nation's footpath to its site": First edition of Nabokov's Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev.
New York: New Directions Books 1944.
First edition this collection of Nabokov’s translations of the major Russian poets. Octavo, original wrappers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118156
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"The strangest prose-poet Russia ever produced": First British Edition of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Nikolai Gogol.
London: Editions Poetry London 1947.
First British edition of Nabokov’s criticism of the work of Russian literary master Nikolai Gogol. Octavo, original cloth. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gogol. Near fine in a good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118463
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First Edition of Nabokov's Bend Sinister
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Bend Sinister.
New York: Henry Holt and Company 1947.
First edition of Nabokov’s first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to the spine.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 74009
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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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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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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