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Nabokov, Vladimir. Nabokov's Dozen : A Collection of Thirteen Stories. Doubleday, New York, 1958.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bottom tips just slightly bumped; else a near fine copy in an unclipped ('$3.50') dustjacket with light wear along edges and at spinal extremities (mylar protected). Appears to be a later printing - lacks statement of edition or printing on copyright page.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$24.25 + shipping
Description: 213 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. First edition. Four of the stories have already appeared in "The New Yorker". - Binding with some minor rubbing. Jacket with tears (repairs) and rubbing. Gewicht (Gramm): 358
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First edition. Black cloth with spine titles in yellow and red. 214 pages. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket in a mylar protector.
Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$54.95 + shipping
Description: Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered on the backstrip in bright yellow and orange. The white parts of the Dust Jacket have moderate age-darkening along the edges. The rear panel of the jacket is just a little soiled. Although Juliar calls for both white and yellow lettering on the spine of the Dust Jacket, this copy's lettering is all white (due to sun exposure?). NOT price clipped (3.50). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp, with only a touch of age-toning. Field 0858. Juliar A32.1. Bibliographical Note: The dust jacket on this copy appears to be identical with the first edition Dust Jacket pictured on page 259 of Michael Juliar's VLADIMIR NABOKOV, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. However, the photo Juliar provides in that bibliography does not entirely agree with the transcription he gives on page 253 in the same book. We suspect the photo is correct, and it is Juliar's transcription that is mistaken. We did find another such mistake in the same paragraph where Juliar misspelled the name of the dust jacket designer. . First Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Webber, Franklyn (dust jacket design). 8vo. 214pp.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$66.12 + shipping
Description: 214 S. Original-Leinenband Erste Ausgabe. - Einband etwas fleckig. Gewicht (Gramm): 342
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Nabokov, Vladimir. Nabokov's Dozen. Doubleday, New York, 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state. (Juliar's first state with correct number, 31, on last page of text.) 214 p. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Toning with age, bumped corners. Jacket worn at head, orange lettering faded on spine, rubbing, price intact ($3.50). A nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Offsetting on the endpapers, a small stain on the bottom page edge else about near fine with previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown in a very good dust jacket with abrasions, creasing, and faint spotting.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov's Dozen. Doubleday, Garden City New York, 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: a near fine copy in the original black cloth with color titles on spine. only a fade line keeps this book from fine and the dj is very good, only light edge wear and is under brodart mylar. with the original price of 3.50. on front flap. This is Nabokov's first book after his Lolita. the sub title is a collection of 13 stories by the author of Lolita and Pnin. Nabokov was a Professor of English at Cornell, and was a fluent writer top notch in three languages: Russian, German and English. born in 1899 in Russia, escaped the revolution and the Czar in 1917. He studied at Cambridge. a great writer. with a poetic imagination.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Nabokov's Dozen : A Collection of Thirteen Stories. Doubleday, New York, 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: About fine in an unclipped, lightly worn dustjacket with 2 1/2" closed tear along fold top edge rear panel - in mylar protector the tear is barely visible. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page. Photos available upon request.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this selection of short stories, Conversation Piece, First Love, Signs And Symbols and Lance first appearing in The New Yorker. 8vo. 214 pp. A fine copy in black cloth, yellow and red titles to the spine in a bright, fresh near fine dustwrapper with some very light use. Juliar A32.1. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada