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Nabokov, Vladimir. Conclusive Evidence. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1951.
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: first edition
Seller: Fred Shearer, Woodford Green, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Nabokov, Vladimir. Conclusive Evidence. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1951.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book VERY GOOD+ evidence of erasure on front free endpaper, top fore edge corner bumped; dust jacket GOOD bottom of front flap clipped, price of $3.00 present, chipping up to 1/2" ending in 1" tear at head of spine, chipping up to 1" at toe of spine, flap corners worn, minor chip at bottom of rear panel, 3/4" closed tear at top of front panel, rubbing and small abrasion at front spine fold.
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Nabokov, Vladimir. CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. A MEMOIR. New York:Harper and Brothers, 1951.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:Harper & Brothers. (1951). 1st edition, stated. 240pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards lightly soiled and edge worn with wear to top spine end. Page edges slightly soiled. Internally, pages slightly age toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is in fair condition, still in one piece and not price clipped, but soiled with many small chips and tears to edges and folds. The rear panel along hinge has silverfish damage and is in danger of separating.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Conclusive Evidence, a Memoir. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1951.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, hardcover, has a very light lean to the binding, slight bumps to spine ends, a touch of shelfwear to cover edges and corners, light sunning to cover edges with a very faint hint of shallow staining to head of front cover, otherwise a solid Near VG copy in a Good dust jacket, which is clipped at tail corner of front flap with price still present at head of flap, has bumps with short chips to spine ends and corners, soiling to spine and parts of covers, edgewear with short chips and tears, and a 2.5" scrape torn into middle of spine. Jacket has been wrapped in a protective Mylar cover.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Conclusive Evidence. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1951.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 240 pgs. Green cloth binding, with black back-strip which is a bit rubbed at the ends. Internally tight, and unmarked, a nice copy of a scarce Nabokov, lacking the jacket. Normal age-toning in text. Early remembrances of the author's life. Very good condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Nabokov, Vladimir.. Conclusive Evidence.. New York Harper & Bros, 1951.
Price: US$263.36 + shipping
Description: X, 240 pp. Original half cloth with dust jacket. First edition of the autobiography. - Some light wear and tanning to edges of jacket. Gewicht (Gramm): 438
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Nabokov, Vladimir. Conclusive Evidence. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951.
Price: US$380.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth spine, blue cloth boards. First Edition. 8vo. The margins of the boards have some fading and the ends of the spine show light wear. In a printed design DJ with the price present; the DJ is wrapped in a mylar protector. The DJ shows dusting, light corner wear, a small closed tear, and a few very small chips.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
NABOKOV, Vladimir. SPEAK, MEMORY: A Memoir.. London: Victor Gollancz., 1951.
Price: US$445.21 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the dustwrapper, the front panel showing a nineteenth-century illustration of the Mariinsky Palace, St Isaac's Cathedral and the Blue Bridge in St Petersburg. A very good copy, the binding firm and square, the contents, except for some light spotting to upper and fore-edges of the page block, and light offsetting to endpapers, are clean throughout. Upper spine tip lightly bumped. In the dustwrapper, rubbed and chipped to edges and extremities, with some light spotting (more visible to the reverse). There is the ghostly trace of a sticker (now removed) visible to the lower portion of the rear panel. Both the binding and dustwrapper are in their second state, the book in blue rather than green cloth, the dustwrapper with the 'Daily Mail Book of the Month' insignia overprinted to the spine and lower edge of the front flap, as issued. Not price-clipped (16/- net to the front flap). A presentable copy, in a better than usual example of the notoriously fragile wrapper. The US edition of Nabokov's memoir, issued the same year as the UK version, was titled 'Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir'. 'Speak Memory, the title given to this UK edition, was the one kept when the work was reissued in both US and UK in 1967. The later version (subtitled 'An Autobiography Revisited') was extensively revised in light of the author's 1954 translation of the work into Russian from the original English. In the foreword to the revision, Nabokov explained that "[w]hile writing the first version in America I was handicapped by an almost complete lack of data in regard to family history, and, consequently, by the impossibility of checking my memory when I felt it might be at fault. [.] What I still have not been able to rework through want of specific documentation, I have now preferred to delete for the sake of over-all truth." The work is composed of fifteen discrete (though intricately connected) autobiographical essays, earlier versions of which had appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's Magazine. It is dedicated, as always, to the author's wife, Véra. (Field 1096). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. Conclusive Evidence. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1951.
Price: US$751.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Newly bound in full black smooth calf with gilt stamped compartments, gilt borders to the boards and two gilt stamped red morocco spine labels. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Dedication page and Author's Note page darkened from a clipping that was pinned to the Author's Note page, with two small pin holes, otherwise a fine copy in a new leather binding. Housed in a cloth slipcase.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada