First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister
Bend Sinister.
Nabokov, Vladimir.
$60.00Item Number: 73094
New York : McGraw-Hill Company , 1973.
First McGraw-Hill edition of Nabokov’s first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Skardinski.
Bend Sinister was the first novel he wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
Other Books by this Author
First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Invitation to a Beheading.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960.
First edition of this “wonderful tour de force” (Gilbert Highet). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket designed by Eric Ayers. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $100.00
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"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul": First edition of Collins Collectors' Choice: Vladimir Nabokov: Five Novels
Nabokov, Vladimir. Introduction by Peter Quennell.
Collins Collectors’ Choice: Vladimir Nabokov: Five Novels.
London: Williams Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1979.
First edition of this collection of five of Nabokov’s best known works including Lolita. Octavo, original leatherette gilt. Fine in a fine just jacket.
Price: $85.00
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"The strangest prose-poet Russia ever produced": First New Directions Edition of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol; Inscribed by Him with an early Drawing of a Butterfly
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Nikolai Gogol.
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1944.
First edition of Nabokov’s criticism of the work of Russian literary master Nikolai Gogol. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in Russian on the front free endpaper with a drawing of a butterfly, in Russian in the year of publication, “To Leon Dinkin with congenial salutation Vladimir Nabokov Sep XI 1944.” The recipient, Dr. Leon Dinkin, had a following among European refugees of the Nazi era and became known in NY circles at the “Refugee Doctor. After graduation from Heidelberg University, he established a practice in Berlin, but left for France in 1933 when Hitler came to power. In the archive of letters of Dr. Leon Dinkin (Letters, folder 42) the Nabokov’s consulted him about their son’s health in 1944 (a stomachache of uncertain origin). The “exploratory laparotomy” (incision into the abdomen) was suggested but Dinkin was resolutely against it and offered to bring Dmitri to New York for further observation under his control. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. A very rare Nabokov inscription in Russian, especially unusual in a pre-revolutionary alphabet that was cancelled by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s.
Price: $11,000.00
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“And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection": First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Despair
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Despair.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966.
First British edition of this inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime–his own murder. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A very nice example.
Price: $100.00
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"Nabokov resembled a seventeenth-century polymath, an erudite yet discursive and imaginative author like Robert Burn or Sir Thomas Browne": First edition of Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute
Nabokov, Vladimir. Edited by Peter Quennell.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1980.
First edition of this tribute to the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov with essays by Peter Quennell, Alfred Appel, Jr., Robert Alter, and Dmitri Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth over boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover photograph of Nabokov by Leonie Finlay.
Price: $25.00
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"LIGHT OF MY LIFE, FIRE OF MY LOINS": FIRST BRITISH EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Lolita.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959.
First British edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket designed by Eric Ayers. A very sharp example.
Price: $500.00
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"LIGHT OF MY LIFE, FIRE OF MY LOINS": FIRST Annotated EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
Nabokov, Vladimir. Preface, Introduction and notes by Alfred, Appel, Jr.
The Annotated Lolita.
New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1970.
First edition of the piracy edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece with annotations by Nabokov expert Alfred Appel, Jr. Octavo, original cloth. Photograph portrait of Nabokov to the rear panel by Halsman. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $150.00
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"I shall never regret Lolita. She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle": First edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Strong Opinions
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Strong Opinions.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolcon, 1974.
First British edition of Nabokovs first collection of public prose, interviews, and articles. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Back cover photograph by Philippe Halsman.
Price: $70.00
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"I met the first of my three or four successive wives in somewhat odd circumstances": First edition of Nabokov's Look at the Harlequins!
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Look at the Harlequins!
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
First edition of the final novel published before Nabokov’s death. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with one small chip back panel. Dust jacket portrait of Nabokov by Halsman. Jacket design by Robert L. Mitchell.
Price: $35.00
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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; Signed and Dated by Him
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. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “Vladimir Nabokov Wellesley Jan. 1942.” Nabokov joined the staff of Wellesley College in 1941 as resident lecturer in comparative literature. The position, created specifically for him, provided an income and free time to write creatively and pursue his lepidoptery. Nabokov is remembered as the founder of Wellesley’s Russian Department. The Nabokovs resided in Wellesley, Massachusetts, during the 1941–42 academic year. In September 1942 they moved to Cambridge where they lived until June 1948. Following a lecture tour through the United States, Nabokov returned to Wellesley for the 1944–45 academic year as a lecturer in Russian. In 1945, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He served through the 1947–48 term as Wellesley’s one-man Russian Department, offering courses in Russian language and literature. His classes were popular, due as much to his unique teaching style as to the wartime interest in all things Russian. At the same time he was the de facto curator of lepidoptery at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. In near fine condition, with the signature of Georgia Robison Beale to the pastedown. Robison Beale was a professor at Wellesley from 1941-42. A very nice example, uncommon signed and with noted provenance.
Price: $4,500.00
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“IS THIS REALITY, THE FINAL REALITY, OR JUST A NEW DECEPTIVE DREAM?”: FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
Nabokov, Vladimir.
King, Queen, Knave.
New York: McGraw-Hill Company, 1968.
First edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $100.00
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“AND WHAT IS DEATH, IF NOT A FACE AT PEACE - ITS ARTISTIC PERFECTION": FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S DESPAIR
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Despair.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.
First American edition of this inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime–his own murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $160.00
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"The unique character of his creative genius stands evident in his work": First edition of In Memoriam: Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977
Nabokov, Vladimir.
In Memoriam: Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977.
New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1977.
First edition of this collection of memorial essays honoring the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov. Octavo, original cloth. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $55.00
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“IS THIS REALITY, THE FINAL REALITY, OR JUST A NEW DECEPTIVE DREAM?”: FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
Nabokov, Vladimir.
King, Queen, Knave.
New York: McGraw-Hill Company, 1968.
First edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $125.00
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Strong Opinions
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Strong Opinions.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973.
First edition of Nabokov’s first collection of public prose. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Skardinski.
Price: $100.00
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading; Signed by the Translator Dmitri Nabokov
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Invitation to a Beheading.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1957.
First edition of this “wonderful tour de force” (Gilbert Highet). Octavo, original half cloth, red topstain. Signed by the translator on the title page, With best wishes Dmitri Nabokov.” Fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $475.00
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"LIGHT OF MY LIFE, FIRE OF MY LOINS": FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF NABOKOV'S TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Lolita.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.
First edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece, published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1955. First issue with the price of 900 francs on the rear panel of each volume. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green wrappers. In near fine condition with light rubbing, some toning to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice example.
Price: $6,500.00
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“And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection": First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Despair
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Despair.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.
First American edition of this inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime–his own murder. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A very nice example.
Price: $175.00
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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 near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Glory
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Glory.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the crown of the spine. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $50.00
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"I met the first of my three or four successive wives in somewhat odd circumstances": First edition of Nabokov's Look at the Harlequins!
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Look at the Harlequins!
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
First edition of the final novel published before Nabokov’s death. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket portrait of Nabokov by Halsman. Jacket design by Robert L. Mitchell.
Price: $30.00
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First Edition of Nabokov's Notes on Prosody: from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Notes on Prosody.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1964.
First edition of Nabokov’s analysis of poetic prosody from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Invitation to a Beheading.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1957.
First edition of this “wonderful tour de force” (Gilbert Highet). Octavo, original half cloth, red topstain. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $100.00
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"He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire": First edition in English of Nabokov's first novel Mary
Nabokov, Vladimir. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.
Mary.
New York: McGraw-Hill International, Inc, 1970.
First edition in English of Nabokov’s debut novel. Octavo, original black cloth, mustard yellow endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $35.00
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"Now, at last, nothing could but his death could satisfy me": First edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
First British edition of this collection of thirteen stories written by Nabokov in the 1920s and 30s. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00
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"The accursed day when Anton Petrovich made the acquaintance of the Berg existed only in theory": First Edition of Nabokov's Quartet in The Original Dust Jacket
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Nabokov’s Quartet.
New York: Phaedra Publishers , 1966.
First edition of this collection of Nabokov’s short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photographic portrait of Nabokov by J.M. Schlemmer on rear panel.
Price: $30.00
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"He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire": First edition in English of Nabokov's first novel Mary
Nabokov, Vladimir. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.
Mary.
New York: McGraw-Hill International, Inc, 1970.
First edition in English of Nabokov’s debut novel. Octavo, original black cloth, mustard yellow endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very bright example.
Price: $45.00
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $25.00
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First British Edition of Nabokov's Bend Sinister
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Bend Sinister.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960.
First British edition of Nabokov’s first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the spine. Jacket design by Eric Ayers.
Price: $100.00
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"The strangest prose-poet Russia ever produced": First British Edition of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol; Signed by Him
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. Signed by Vladmir Nabokov on the front free endpaper. From the library of Rona Kass, who was a student at Cornell University, where Nabokov taught in the 1950s. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gogol. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $3,500.00
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Advanced Reader's Edition of the First Edition of Vladimir Nobokov's The Eye
Nabokov, Vladimir.
The Eye.
New York: Phaedra, 1965.
Advanced edition of the first edition of this short novel by the author of Lolita. Octavo, original wrappers. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $125.00
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First Edition of Vladimir Nobokov's The Eye
Nabokov, Vladimir.
The Eye.
New York: Phaedra, 1965.
First edition of this short novel by the author of Lolita. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $75.00
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"All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they took photographs": First British Edition of Pale Fire
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Pale Fire.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.
First British edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light wear. A nice example.
Price: $750.00
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First edition of Vladimir's Nabokov The Defence
Nabokov, Vladimir.
The Defence (Defense).
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964.
First edition of this early Nabokov novel, which tells the tragic story of a man destroyed by his own genius and of the hopeless efforts of the wife who loves him to save him from himself. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Curtis.
Price: $200.00
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"No hands have wrought my monument; no weeds will hide the nation's footpath to its site": First New Directions 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. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $275.00
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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.
London: Editions Poetry, 1945.
First British edition of Nabokov’s first novel published in English. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Strong Opinions
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Strong Opinions.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973.
First edition of Nabokov’s first collection of public prose. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Skardinski.
Price: $85.00
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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
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FIRST GREEK EDITION OF NABOKOV'S TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Lolita (In Greek)
Athens: Ekdotikos Oikos Minotauros, 1961.
First Greek edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Prologue by N. G. Stathatou.
Price: $75.00
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"A Magnificent Literary Masterpiece": First edition of Nabokov's English translation of The Song of Igor's Campaign
Nabokov, Vladimir.
The Song of Igor’s Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth Century.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961.
First America edition of Nabokov’s English translation of the epic 12th century Slavic poem. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice example.
Price: $175.00
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“IS THIS REALITY, THE FINAL REALITY, OR JUST A NEW DECEPTIVE DREAM?”: FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
Nabokov, Vladimir.
King, Queen, Knave.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.
First British edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Mayhew. Photograph of Nabokov on the rear panel by Philippe Halsman. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov. A nice example.
Price: $55.00
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"This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling": Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Laughter in the Dark.
New York: New Directions, 1960.
First edition of the New Directions edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some wear to the front panel. Jacket design by Griselda Ohannessian and Charles Kaplan.
Price: $65.00
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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, top edge stained red. Fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to the spine.
Price: $750.00
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"THAT FIRST SURRENDER OF HERS WAS A LITTLE SUDDEN, IF NOT DOWNRIGHT UNNERVING": FIRST EDITION OF NABOKOV'S THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA (DYING IS FUN); PUBLISHED 32 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH; SIGNED BY CHIP KIDD
Nabokov, Vladimir.
The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun): A Novel in Fragments.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
First edition of Nabokov’s final and incomplete novel which he was in the process of writing at the time of his death in 1977. Octavo, original pictorial cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the jacket designer Chip Kidd on the back flap of the jacket. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the original index cards that comprised the unfinished manuscript with accompanying printed annotations. Introduction by Dmitri Nabokov. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $100.00
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Nabokov, Vladimir.
Nabokov’s Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958.
First edition of this collection of thirteen short stories by Nabokov. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Franklin Webber.
Price: $100.00
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"LIGHT OF MY LIFE, FIRE OF MY LOINS": FIRST American EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Lolita.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955.
First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Photograph of Nabokov by Maclean Dameron. Small name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $950.00
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"A fitting name for it might be telemort, or to keep it all greek telethanasia": First edition of Nabokov's Tragicomedy The Waltz Invention
Nabokov, Vladimir.
The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts.
New York: Phaedra Publishers, Inc, 1966.
First American edition of Nabokov’s prophetic tragicomedy. Octavo, original blue cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $25.00
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"Translation is one of those most fascinating and misprized of the arts": First edition of On Translation in the rare original dust jacket
Nabokov, Vladimir et al.
On Translation.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
First edition of this extensive volume on translators, translating and works of translation. Octavo, original boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00
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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
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"TILL WE DIE, TILL TOMORROW, FOR EVER, YOU AND I ON THE OLD BRIDGE ONE NIGHT”: FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S THE GIFT
Nabokov, Vladimir.
The Gift.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963.
First edition of the “the most original, unusual and interesting piece of prose writing of Russian emigre writing” (Simon Karlinsky). Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dimitri Nabokov.
Price: $175.00
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"When two such brilliantly ebullient intellects get together by mail, they charge the air with all sorts of pyrotechnics": First Edition of The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971
Nabokov, Vladimir and Edmund Wilson. Edited, Annotated and with an Introduction by Simon Karlinksy.
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of this annotated compendium of the Nabokov-Wilson letters. Octaovo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $25.00
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"Her childhood passed festively, securely, and gaily, as was the custom in our country": Rare first America edition of Vladimir Nabokov's A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
Nabokov, Vladimir.
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories.
New York: McGraw-Hill International, 1973.
First American edition of this collection of short stories originally published in Russian. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov and Simon Karlinksy. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Skardinski. Photographic portrait of Nabokov on the rear panel by Halsman. A very clean example.
Price: $25.00
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