"All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they took photographs": First British Edition of Pale Fire
Pale Fire.
Nabokov, Vladimir.
$750.00Item Number: 89062
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.
"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). “This brilliant parody of literary scholarship is also an experimental synthesis of Nabokov’s talents for both poetry and prose. It extends and completes his mastery of unorthodox structure” (Encyclopedia of Literature, 851).