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Vladimir Nabokov. Pale Fire. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.
Price: US$40.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1962. Second Impression. 315 pages. Dust jacket over black cloth. Light tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall with visible loss and creasing to panels.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of the 1962 first UK edition in original black boards stamped in silver. Binding has slight wear; faint cup ring to front cover; '25' in grease pencil on front endpaper).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale fire.. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962.
Price: US$133.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 21 cm. 315 pages VG/FR. Very good book with slight browning and foxing to page edges in fair dust jacket with edge tears and several areas missing. Dust jacket protected with removable plastic cover.
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1962, first impression,, 1962.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 315pp, a handwritten price on flyleaf corner (6/-), edges browned and some light foxing, otherwise clean and sound, black cloth, Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper edges rubbed and frayed, not price-clipped
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Vladimir Nabokov. Pale Fire. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing (November 1962). 315pp. VG+ book, binding square and tight, corners crisp, silver gilt bright, blue ink name to ffep, in Good edge worn jacket with several small chipped losses, jacket grubby and a little toned with faint pencil price to front cover, now preserved in archival jacket protector
Seller: Object Relations, IOBA, London, United Kingdom
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Pale Fire. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1962.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK edition of this witty, ironic and complex tour de forceâ (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in an unclipped near fine dust jacket with a little creasing and slight yellowing to the spine. "This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century" (Mary McCarthy). This brilliant parody of literary scholarship is also an experimental synthesis of Nabokovâ s talents for both poetry and prose. It extends and completes his mastery of unorthodox structureâ (Encyclopedia of Literature, 851). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$788.37 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 1. Pale Fire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper. 2. Ada - Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. First Edition, Third Printing (1969). A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. 3. Lectures on Literature: Austen - Dickens - Flaubert - Joyce - Kafka - Proust - Stevenson. Edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by John Updike. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Please note that due to size and weight we will have to charge additional postage.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland