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.
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's The Enchanted
Nabokov, Vladimir.
The Enchanter.
London: Picador Books, 1987.
First edition of Nabokov’s long lost novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by F. Vallatton. Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov.
Price: $25.00
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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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"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 near fine dust jacket that shows light wear. An attractive example.
Price: $750.00
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Nabokov, Vladimir.
Transparent Things.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
First edition. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00
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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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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov. Book design by Marcy J. Katz.
Price: $25.00
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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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Nabokov, Vladimir.
Look at the Harlequins!
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
First edition. Some foxing to the top edge, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelwear. A nice copy.
Price: $45.00
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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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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. With the “compliments of the publisher” card is laid in.
Price: $100.00
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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 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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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 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 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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"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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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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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Laughter in the Dark.
Indianapolis/ New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938.
First edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some chips and tears to the rear panel.
Price: $750.00
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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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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 good dust jacket with some wear to the front panel. Jacket design by Griselda Ohannessian and Charles Kaplan.
Price: $75.00
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First Edition of Lolita: A Screenplay
Nabokov, Vladimir.
Lolita: A Screenplay.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974.
First edition of the screenplay of Nabokov’s Lolita. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Skardinski.
Price: $100.00
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