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"Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines!" First edition of Nabokov's Transparent Things
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Transparent Things.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.
First edition of Nabokov's 1972 novella. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Photographic portrait of Nabokov on the rare panel of dust jacket by Halsman.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 140097
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“Solitude is the playfield of Satan": First Edition of Pale Fire
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Pale Fire.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.
First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 140795
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FIRST American EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Lolita.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955.
First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 143981
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Pnin.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1957.
First American edition of this ‘campus novel’, a subgenre which was beginning to manifest itself in the early Fifties. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144268
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"When two such brilliantly ebullient intellects get together by mail, they charge the air with all sorts of pyrotechnics": First Edition of The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971
NABOKOV, Vladimir and Edmund Wilson. Edited.
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of this annotated compendium of the Nabokov-Wilson letters. Octaovo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 89093
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"Translation is one of those most fascinating and misprized of the arts": First edition of On Translation in the rare original dust jacket
NABOKOV, Vladimir et al.
On Translation.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
First edition of this extensive volume on translators, translating and works of translation. Octavo, original boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 89096
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"The breaking of the wave cannot explain the whole sea": First Edition of the reissue of Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Introduction by Conrad Brenner.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
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.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 89025
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"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul": Collins Collectors' Choice: Vladimir Nabokov: Five Novels
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Introduction by Peter Quennell.
Collins Collectors’ Choice: Vladimir Nabokov: Five Novels.
London: Williams Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1979.
First printing of this edition of this collection of five of Nabokov's best known works including Lolita. Octavo, original leatherette gilt. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 89097
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"He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire": First edition in English of Nabokov's first novel Mary
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.
Mary.
New York: McGraw-Hill International, Inc, 1970.
First edition in English of Nabokov's debut novel. Octavo, original black cloth, mustard yellow endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very bright example.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 89051
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Finely bound example of Gustave Nadaud's Chansons De Salon Populaires et Legeres Operettes
NADAUD, Gustave.
Chansons De Salon Populaires et Legeres Operettes.
Paris: Henri Plon, 1867.
Finely bound example of the popular songs and operettas of French chansonnier Gustave Nadaud. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 92541
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Godel's Proof; From the Library of Stephen Hawking
NAGEL, Ernest and James R. Newman [Stephen Hawking].
Gödel’s Proof.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, 1964.
Early printing of this work on Godel, from the library of physicist Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum…
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 119482
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"Objectivity of whatever kind is not the test of reality. It is just one way of understanding reality": First Edition of The View From Nowhere; Signed by Thomas Nagel
NAGEL, Thomas.
The View From Nowhere.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
First edition of this philosophical work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Thomas Nagel New York March 24, 2016." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Ownership signature from the year of publication to the front pastedown. Jacket design by Egon Lauterberg. Jacket painting, 'The Large Enclosure Near Dresden,' by Caspar David Friedrich.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145276
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First Edition of North of South: An African Journey; Signed Twice by Shiva Naipaul
NAIPAUL, Shiva.
North of South: An African Journey.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication. Additionally signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 915
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First Edition of The Suffrage of Elvira; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
The Suffrage of Elvira.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1958.
First edition of Naipaul's second book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Micklewright. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 2135