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Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1957.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hard cover 8vo in black cloth w/red and yellow spine titles. Very Good book in like clipped DJ. 2" split bottom front gutter exposing hinge, sporadic pencil notations; jacket creased rear panel, chipped at spine tips and corners. 191pp.

Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

Vladimir Nabokov; Milton Glazer (jacket design).. Pnin. Dust Jacket for First American Edition with price ($3.50; code 46946) listed on flap inside cover.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday., 1957.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Dust Jacket Only. 8vo. DJ Good with marginal tears, losses. First American Edition. Protective sleeve.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Nabokov, Vladimir.. PNIN. Doubleday & Co., 1957.

Price: US$60.16 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1957 Doubleday hardcover, exlibrary copy with cover wear and tear, no jacket, exlibrary stamps, 1st edition reading copy.Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!

Seller: Best and Fastest Books, Wantage, NJ, U.S.A.

Vladimir Nabokov. Pnin - 1st Edition. Doubleday, 1957.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Doubleday, 1957. Hard cover, first edition. Has some notes written on the front pastedown, foxing to endpages, otherwise VG condition in Good dust jacket which has what appears to be brown varnish painted around the edges of the interior. This is hidden when the jacket is on the book but there are some traces of it on the flaps. Apart from this the jacket has a bit of light soiling and edgewear.

Seller: Turgid Tomes, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, 1957.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Description: 191 pg. Two library rubber stamps (company library) on this copy, but it was not heavily circulated and the jacket is 'fine'. A contact tape-stain shows on rear free endpaper, no other damages. Nice collectible condition. Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket.

Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.

NABOKOV, Vladimir. Pnin. Doubleday, New York, 1957.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Light soiling to the front panel and sunning to the jacket spine. Closed tear on the rear panel. Nabokov, wrote this novel while he was a professor at Cornell University. Not surprisingly this is a comic novel about the academic world.

Seller: Sawtooth Books, ABAA, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin. Doubleday, 1957.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Publisher: Doubleday, New York, 1957. NEAR FINE hardcover book in VERY GOOD mylar-protected dust-jacket. DJ has 2 small chips at the heel of spine and one at the lower tip of front panel. General age toning. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped ($3.50). First US Edition, First Printing.

Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.

Vladimir Nabokov;. PNIN. Doubleday, New York, 1957.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First/first in jacket with heavy foxing/darkening & edgewear. Very good+ clean black cloth boards with bright red & yellow lettering on spine. Rose red tinted top edge. Fore-edge foxing. End pages tanned. Text is clean without markings. Despite foxing, this is a very good, above average collector's copy of uncommon edition.

Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin.. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1957.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: 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. Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever. "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically" (John Updike).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin. Doubleday, USA, 1957.

Price: US$20792.73 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A SIGNED US first edition, craft bound by Richard Tong at Lyra's Bindery in Shropshire. Bound in white goatskin with a square spine. The title has been onlaid in multicoloured leathers to the front board. Black stamped title to spine. Butterfly design on the back board. TEG. Housed in a leather solander box. A good looking copy with lightly toned page edges and a neat, contemporary gift inscription on the page preceding the half title. SIGNED by Nabokov : Vladimir Nabokov Oct 30 1959 London. Paypal accepted.

Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom