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NABOKOV, Vladimir [Cormac McCarthy].

Item Number: 145627

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951.

First edition of Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliantly written memoir of his youth. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of author Cormac McCarthy with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. An exceptional association.

In this memoir of his youth, Nabokov masterfully recounts the story of his opulent childhood in Czarist Russia including his escape abroad when Bolshevism enslaved the country, his college years in England, and his life on the Continent in the early twenties and thirties. In spite of the exotic nature of many of its scenes, the book is always close to the experience of any intelligent and sensitive person.