Search Results: Authors starting with N from Alba's Books

New York: G.P. Putnam;s Sons, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Octavo. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY for limited distribution. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov. The first publication of a work written when the author was forty as a predecessor to LOLITA, and translated by his son from the author's unpublished manuscript. A major literary event, this represents the uncorrected proof of the first edition as sent to a limited number of reviewers, and is thus quite scarce. A fine. clean and unmarked copy.

New Directions, 1959. First ND Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. From the library of Columbia College author/scholars and Story Workshop creators John Schultz and Betty Shiflett, with a warm signed inscription by Shiflett. Clean and unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A superb copy, unmarked and unclipped. In a Brodart jacket cover.

McGraw-Hill, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Stated first edition with $7.95 flap price. Nabokov's first story collection including the famed title story. Noted Nabokov scholar George Cohen's copy, with his embossed seal on corner of title page and no other marks. A superb copy, unmarked and unclipped, in a Brodart jacket cover.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Nabokov's first novel, published in Russia in 1925 and here first translated into English. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. A superb copy, unmarked and unclipped. In a Brodart DJ cover.

New York: McGaraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Stated first edition with $5.95 on flap. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is especially clean, fine and protected by an archival Mylar Brodart cover.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. First indicated by the number 1 in a number line and no additional printing for McGraw-Hill first editions of 1972-74, as this one is. A superb unclipped, unmarked copy in a Mylar cover.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Original quarter black gilt cloth with light gray and white stripped paper covered boards, red topstain, and single date on copyright page, with no blindstamp on rear cover. Nabokov's groundbreaking novel of a professor';s infatuation with a nympeth. Minor discoloration to 2""x4"" area of rear cover next to black cloth not extending inward or to cloth and not affecting quality of board. Jacket is from an early printing in the same design and year of publication, and has the $5.oo flap price intact. Archival Mylar cover included.

Evanston: Northwestern Univerity Press, 1971. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Started first printing. Includes Nabokov's ""Anniversary Notes,"" rare photos, and bibliographical notes. A pristine copy but for a tiny chip to the jacket spine bottom, unclipped and unmarked in a plastic Brodart jacket cover.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. The first British edition of this work by the great Russian emigre author. In an unnamed dream country, a young man is condemned to death by beheading for ""gnostical turpitude,"" an imaginary crime that defies definition. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a tiny 1/8"" V chip to the spine top and light rubbing to its bottom, but is otherwise near fine, clean and bright, with the 18/-net price on the flap. Protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Has the '1' in a number line and $5.95 on flap. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover. The dust jacket is especially well preserved, unfaded and bright.

New York: Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Octavo. Stated first edition first issue with publisher's address on copyright page in first-issue dust jacket printed on white laid uncoated paper and with Trident Press mentioned at bottom of back flap. Nabokov�s fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Smurov, a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian �migr� living in pre-war Berlin, commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife as he searches for proof of his existence among fellow �migr�s who are too distracted to pay him any heed. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked. Archival Mylar jacket cover included.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. First Edition Facsimile. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Thirtieth anniversary edition with the new introduction pamphlet b Erica Jong laid in. Printed in facsimile/ A fine, clean copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. The last posthumous book by the author of LOLITA, with much never before published material. Stated first edition with $30 on flap. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Stated first printing with code 45720 on the c.p. A splendid, clean and unmarked copy with the original $8.95 flap prince. In a Mylar DJ cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Photographs. Publisher's lIlustrated designer cloth with photo endpapers. An annotated edition with facsimile pages of the original manuscript by Nabokov above the running printed text of the novel, of importance to the scholar, student and researcher. Printed on quality photo paper, heavier than custom stock used for books. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Princeton: Bollingen Series, 1964. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. The first separate publication of these works by Nabokov. Original stiff paper covers with single date on copyright. A clean, bright copy, with no markings in text.

Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Original yellow cloth and $4.50 price in first state with publisher's address on copyright page. Book is clean and unmarked. Jacket is bright and clean, with a minor price label discoloration on the foreedge. Protected by a Brodart cover.