The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight

Norfolk, Connecticutt [1945]: New Directions, 1941. First Edition, Second Issue . Smooth Red Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. 205 Pp. Colophon States A Total Of 1500 Copies Were Printed. Bound In Smooth Red Cloth [749 Copies Were Bound In A Red Burlap Binding In 1941, The Remaining 751 Copies Were Bound In This Smooth Red Cloth Binding And… Read more about this item

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Front binding is slightly worn at the corners. DJ has a small chip on the top outside edge with slight smudging. Previous owner's name on the inside front binding and attached page. From the front DJ, "...Nabokov...works his perverse magic in more than one dimension. On the surface, this… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: New Directions, 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. A VERY GOOD FIRST PRINTING IN DJ..

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. 205, [1, printer's imprint) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ,. 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.… Read more about this item

VG / no jacket. 1941 New Directions, first edition - with advance copy publication stamp. Hardcover. One of the first 750 copies printed with the red burlap cover design (given its advance status, it's likely one of the first hundred to be distributed in the u.s.). The other half of the 1,500 print run was released with… Read more about this item

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1941. One of 1500 copies printed in November 1941 by the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York. First state, with rough cloth binding and paper labels. Previous owner's name is on the front pastedown. The endpapers are mildly foxed. Otherwise fine.. Limited First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo -… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First edition (with publisher's "Publication Stamp Dec 12 1941"). Hardcover. Very good. 205pp. Octavo [22 cm] Thickly woven red cloth over boards, with a decorative paper title label on the front board (title label on spine is lacking). The spine is subly sunned (with the exception of the area where the title label… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, Third Printing. Not price-clipped ($9.95 price intact). Published by New Directions, 1959. Octavo. Blue boards stamped in black. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spotting to page ends and offsetting to… Read more about this item

First UK edition of Nabokov's novel, published in 1945. The dj is in pieces, pasted together, with critical intact front and back flaps.

New York: New Directions, 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ WITH PRICE..

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959. First edition of the reissue of Nabokov's first novel in English. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. Drawing by Michael Train. A nice example. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld, 1960 (500 grams) ex-library, faint mark to upper board, library rules plate to endpaper, stamps etc to fep which is clipped at top corner, stamp to title page, tape rust strip to paste downs and free end papers, otherwise tidy copy, first thus after 1941 New Directions edition, 192pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First edition of Nabokov's first novel published in English, one of only 1,500 copies printed. Octavo, original burlap weave. In fine condition. A very nice example. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a… Read more about this item

Novel. (London: Editions Poetry: 1945) First UK Edition. Cloth pp. 181. A few patches of discoloration to front cloth and a group of concentrated ones near the head of the rear cloth; light marginal stain to p. 17 otherwise a near fine copy.

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1977. Trade Paperback. Used: Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾Tall. Type: Book If you are a lover of fiction, you should greatly enjoy this book. There is some writing and underlining on page 5.

London: PL Editions Poetry London, 1945. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Minus. Slim 12mo., 181pp. Sharp First British Edition and the first Nabokov work published in the UK. Bound in plight purple cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout save some light uniform off-setting to end-papers due to jacket flaps. A… Read more about this item

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus, American reissue. Introduction by Conrad Brenner. A few pages and text block edges lightly soiled, board edges and spine tanned, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter addressed to American author Harvey Swados (also explaining that the dust jacket was not… Read more about this item

Norfolk:: New Directions. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Introduction by Conrad Brenner. First printing thus. Front free endpaper has been removed, thus only good in a very good (faded along the spine), price clipped dust jacket. .

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1959. 8vo, pp. xv, 205; original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; jacket spine a bit faded, minor edge wear, else very good and sound. First published in 1941.

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.