Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory: A Memoir. Victor Gollancz, London, 1951,, 1951.

Price: US$57.72 + shipping

Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 237pp, owner's name on endpaper, page edges foxed and browning, text otherwise clean and binding sound, blue cloth, slightly soiled, spine rubbed and titles dull, Good condition / no dustwrapper

Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom

Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory: A Memoir by Vladimir Nabokov. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1951.

Price: US$89.67 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1951 hardback no jacket, slightly faded gilt titles to spine with blue boards, 237 pages. Minor wear but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch via Tracked If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Seller: D2D Books, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory: A Memoir by Vladimir Nabokov. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1951.

Price: US$106.02 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Hardcover in acceptable condition. Boards and spine face show patches of discolouration. Spine board ends bumped. Jacket is worn and mottled with several nicks and tears across the edges and corners. A portion of the jacket is chipped on both upper spine edges, the spine ends and near the middle of the spine face. Text block is tanned with some foxing. Some of the pages have foxing around the edges throughout. The binding is sound and the text is clear. CM

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

NABOKOV, Vladimir. SPEAK, MEMORY: A Memoir.. London: Victor Gollancz., 1951.

Price: US$448.97 + 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

Vladimir Nabokov. Speak, Memory. Victor Gollancz, London, 1951.

Price: US$609.31 + shipping

Description: The first edition, second issue of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated autobiographical memoir, covering his life to the year 1940. The first edition, second issue, with 'Daily Mail Book of the Month' to the back strip of the price unclipped publisher's original dust wrapper.Including essays published between 1936 and 1951, Nabokov's memoir follows the course of his life from 1903 to his emigration to America in 1940. The book was instantly called a masterpiece upon publication, and in 2011, Time Magazine listed the book among the 100 'All-TIME' non-fiction books indicating that its 'impressionist approach deepens the sense of memories relived through prose that is gorgeous, rich and full'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Light marks and spotting to boards. Light spotting to dust wrapper, with chipping to dust wrapper head, and back strip head and tail. Three tape repairs to dust wrapper reverse, partially visible to the head of the right side of the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1951.

Price: US$630.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Pretty nice copy in its rare first printing. Green cloth with black lettering on spine. One bumped tip. Unmarked, tight ansd square. Price intact jacket has a few small chips and 1' close tear with moderate soiling. Scarce. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.