PNIN
by NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Avon Publications, Inc., 1957. First Canadian Paperback Edition . Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 160 pp., spine slightly cocked, spine is cracked in one place but all pages are intact, edges soiled, reading crease on spine, light edgewear. Uncommon Canadian printing. [02]
Synopsis
One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J.C. Bell
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84-1
- Title
- PNIN
- Author
- NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Canadian Paperback Edition
- Publisher
- Avon Publications, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
Terms of Sale
J.C. Bell
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About the Seller
J.C. Bell
Biblio member since 2005
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
About J.C. Bell
We are a home-based book business and have been selling books online since 1998. We are currently in the process of cataloguing several more thousandused and antiquarian books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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