The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Nabokov, Vladimir - 1941

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. 205, [1, printer's imprint) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine, Near Fine. First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. 205, [1, printer's imprint) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nabokov's First American Book, Signed in 1941. First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. Slight abrasion on the spine, else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with a few modest chips and a little toning on the spine. Of a total edition of 1500 copies, 749 were bound in the first issue cloth. The combination of the coarse burlap binding, in conjunction with the thin-paper jacket, assured that very few copies in jacket survive. This copy Signed by Nabokov in upper right corner of the titlepage: "V. Nabokov. Wellesley. Christmas 1941." Signed copies of the first edition, in the first binding, are rare. *Juliar* A21.a, issue a. Juliar A21.a, issue a