VLADIMIR NABOKOV: A Pictorial Biography.
Ann Arbor: Ardis, (1991). First edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55070 More
Ann Arbor: Ardis, (1991). First edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55070 More
Paris: A. Fayard et Cie, (1934). First edition of the French translation, preceding the English translation by 30 years. Number 41 of 75 copies on "vellum" (i.e., fine textured) paper with flower on spine (vs. price). 8vo white paperwraps printed in purple and black; 320 pages, most of which are..... Item #54298 More
Paris: A. Fayard et Cie, (1934). First edition of the French translation, preceding the English translation by 30 years. Trade issue with price on spine vs. flower. Preceded by a fine-paper limited issue. 8vo white paperwraps printed in purple and black; 320 pages, most of which are unopened. Good to..... Item #53984 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1938). First U.S. edition in first-issue green cloth. Translated from the Russian by Nabokov, who disliked the translation by Winifred Roy for the 1936 UK edition (published under the title CAMERA OBSCURA). Very good with touch of fading to edges, pp.267-270 roughly opened, and old sticker shadow..... Item #54042 More
No-place: No-publisher, 1985. First edition, "Second draft, March 1985." An unproduced screenplay by Papas based on Nabokov's 1938 novel; a remake of the 1969 French-British film which changed the story's setting from 1930's Berlin to 1960's London. According to John Colapinto in The New Yorker, this planned 1986 remake was..... Item #53842 More
No-place: no-publisher, 1974. First edition. 124-page unproduced screenplay dated April 1974. Xerox copy of typed script printed on rectos only; brad-bound in red card covers with "The Defence" handwritten on front cover and bottom page edge. Cullingford is the pseudonym of mystery writer Constance Lindsay Taylor, and Troell is the..... Item #53841 More
[Evanston]: Northwestern University, 1970. First edition and only edition. Special supplement to TriQuarterly 17, which was devoted entirely to Navokov on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In this special supplement Nabokov reacts and responds to the contributors to TriQuarterly 17. Printed self wraps: 16 pages, cover serving as title..... Item #41496 More
NabokovV.pdf. Item #22862 More
New York: Henry Holt, (1947). First edition. Dystopian novel "of a man under the tyrant state." 8vo black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with light creasing and rubbing and few small chips and tears. From the collection of sports writer Paul..... Item #53963 More
New York: Phaedra, 1965. First edition. Presumed first issue with publisher's address on copyright page; in presumed first-issue dust jacket printed on white laid uncoated paper and with Trident Press mentioned at bottom of back flap. [Note: Juliar does not assign a priority to the two issues but we believe..... Item #47742 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1938). First edition. Published in England under the title, "Camera Obscura." The first book by Vladimir Nabokov to be printed in the United States. Variant binding in orange cloth stamped in black--one of three variant bindings. Very good with lightly soiled cover, small mark to bottom of text..... Item #51808 More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1959). First UK edition, preceded by the U.S. in 1958. Originally published in Paris in 1955. The classic tale of child sexual abuse and the lies abusers tell themselves. 8vo silver-stamped black cloth; top edge red. Bright and fine in near fine dust jacket with internally..... Item #53969 More
New York: Viking Press, (1968). First edition. A cross-section of his writing selected and with critical introduction by Page Stegner. Includes poetry, essays, stories, criticism,and excerpts from his books. Near fine with what appears to be a tiny remainder stamp on bottom page edge and blue top edge faded and..... Item #53973 More
(New York): Phaedra Publishers, 1966. First edition. Juliar's variant "b" with white endpapers and pages bulking about 8.5mm. 8vo simulated cloth boards stamped in black; 104 pages. Near fine in bright, near fine dust jacket. Item #41089 More
London: Editions Poetry London, (1947). First UK edition, preceded by the U.S. edition. In dust jacket with publisher's price sticker on front flap (priority undetermined). Nabokov's study of one of Russia's great literary genuises. Pages considerably darkened with age as usually seen, foxing to top edge of cloth, few minor..... Item #53971 More
Paris: Contemporary Publishing House, 1932. First edition. In Russian. Not published in English until 1971. One of only 1,000 copies. [Juliar A13.1]. Small 8vo printed paperwraps with over-hanging edges. Very good to near fine with light foxing to covers and page edges and tiny tears to lower over-handing edges. Unopened..... Item #53843 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1959. First edition. Presumed first issue with "A25" on p.[44] versus "A26" though Juliar [A33.1a] calls both issues variants. Crisp and fine with barest wear in near fine to fine price-clipped dust jacket with faint, inconspicuous rubbing. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr..... Item #53960 More
(no-place [NY]): Library of America, (1996). First edition, trade issue of each of these three volumes in the Library of America series (numbers 87, 88 and 89). There was also an issue for subscriber's only without dust jacket in slipcase. Includes The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; Bend Sinister; Speak..... Item #54975 More
(New York): Phaedra, 1966. First edition. This copy with red endpapers vs. white and without 3rd line under "Distribution" on rear flap of dust jacket [Juliar A19.1, variant d, no known priority. NOTE: per Juliar's update, although the copyright page is the same, copies in darker blue cloth with dark..... Item #32736 More