Invitation to a Beheading
by NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+ Price-Clipped
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Putnam, 1959. Three tiny digits to top corner of ffep. Dustwrapper is price-clipped and shows minor chipping to top spine edge and corner of front panel (certainly not affecting any text). Overall, a most acceptable copy of the first edition of this novel by Nabokov. In the true first state dustwrapper (with two blurbs on back panel -- one about Lolita and one about this novel). Yellow endsheets and top stained bright red. Translated by his son, Dmitri Nabokov.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG+ Price-Clipped.
Synopsis
Invitation to a Beheading is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov. It was originally published in Russian in 1935-1936 as a serial in Contemporary Notes (Sovremennye zapiski), a highly respected Russian émigré magazine. In 1938 the work was published in Paris, with an English translation following in 1959. The English version was translated by Nabokov's son, Dmitri Nabokov, under the author's supervision.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011335
- Title
- Invitation to a Beheading
- Author
- NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- VG+ Price-Clipped
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- NYSHOW2009;
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- Chipping
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