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Very good. No inscriptions. Clean and bright. Browning to front endpaper, and loosening of rear hinge. 119pp. Includes: maps, index. Fold-out map.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing with numberline "1" to copyright page. Very Good+, clean, tight condition, in Very Good+ original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £25.00). No inscriptions.

When Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 hand-written index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But his wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband's last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, the Russian novelist's only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books, wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father's wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision to finally allow the publication of the fragmented narrative - dark yet playful, preoccupied with morality - affords us one last experience of Nabokov's magnificent creativity,… Read More

2x issues of the Literary Journal 'Encounter' containing significant Vladimir NABOKOV contributions in the English language. Both volumes are in Very Good condition with pencil name to covers. July 1962 includes the article "Pushkin and Gannibal - A Footnote" (Pg 11-26), February 1966 includes "Nabokov's Reply" to his critics (Pg 80-89) - a 10 page essay in which Nabokov defends his translation skills. These issues of Encounter also include many other literary pieces and advertisements including Jorge Luis Borges' Two Stories 'The Circular Ruins' and 'The Library of Babel'. This listing is for both issues together.Encounter was a literary magazine founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. It was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal, originally associated with the anti-Stalinist left. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-centre publication"… Read More

Very Good + condition with no inscriptions, in Very Good + original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped.1st English language edition of his Nobel Prize Winner's book (Previously published in Arabic in 1983). The scarcer Cairo edition, rather than the Doubleday US Edition.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 2021 with correct numberline 10-1 to copyright page. Unpaginated. Very Good, clean, tight condition, with no inscriptions.

1938 US Revised Edition. Very Good condition with toning to the endpapers. No inscriptions, clean and bright. In Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price $2.50). The wrapper has edge tears (particularly to the flap folds) / chips.
Scarce in original dustwrapper. Advertised as "One volume Edition, revised by Rosalind Nash from the Two Volume 'Life', with additional matter".

Illustrated in colour. Very Good, clean, tight condition with no inscriptions. In Very Good original wrap-around band.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing of the Latin edition of 'A Bear Called Paddington'. Clean, tight, crisp condition, with no inscriptions. In original price-clipped dustwrapper. "Paddington Bear at last joins Winnie the Pooh and Peter Rabbit in having his well-known and well-loved adventures turned into elegant Latin for the first time".

1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1993. Very Good condition. No inscriptions or price stickers.
3x consecutive issues of 'The Sandman' including the Special 48-page 50th Issue of 'The Sandman' including Artist's Gallery 'Facets of Dream'.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 2016. Very Good+, clean, tight condition. Inscribed by the author to the title-page "To Zoe Up with life and work ! love + luck Helena Nelson (Nell) x".

+ 1pp publisher's advertisements to rear. Illustrated with pen-and-ink diagrams and black / white photographs by Elsie A. Crouch. Includes forewords by Miss Helen Drummond ('A Physical Training College'), Major H. J. Selby ('A Rural County') and Miss K. Meaden ('An Industrial City').

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing with numberline "1" to copyright page. Handsigned by the author to a preliminary page. No other inscriptions. Very Good+ condition in Very Good+ original dustwrapper which bears a "Signed by the author" sticker to the front panel.