Vladimir Nabokov

Only been read once! No markups, all pages in good condition, and comes from a smoke free home! 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him

Lolita

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California

Cracking along spine and cover page. Otherwise in great condition

Michigan

Vladímir Nabokov

Rare first edition in fine condition. Collectible. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

A collection of 65 stories about human relations, human nature, and political satire includes 13 first-time English translations

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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Texas

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Florida

Revised and Updated

The textural discussion accompanying this novel examines the thematic and technical elements which make it a literary classic

The Annotated Lolita

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

Laughter in the Dark

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New Mexico

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

(1971 Hardcover)

Glory

Some wear on the cover. Very good condition. 

And Other Stories 

A Russian Beauty

The Defense

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  

It is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.  Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.

This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously  sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

King, Queen, Knave 

Classic novel printed in 1955! Well-loved. Mass market paperback sized with red edges. This story isn’t for the faint-hearted. 

New Hampshire

New Jersey

Kyleigh Archer

Good condition, the only issue being that this kind of paperback is flimsy.

Pennsylvania

Lolita is as famous as her heart shaped glasses, but who is Dolores?

Lolita Child

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Robert Louis Stevenson

The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant realization in Robert Louis Stevenon's story of Dr Jekyll, whose reckless genius allows him to bring his own appalling double to life. The finest horror story in our language, Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde is also a metaphysical fairy-tale of stunning perspicacity. Also included in this collection are Markheim, A Lodging for the Night, Thrawn Janet, The Body-Snatcher and The Misadventures of John Nicholson. "From the Hardcover edition."

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Dan Chaon

Gently used paperback copy. Has a few stains and an indent on the cover.

Illinois

This edition of the classic tale of the duality of good and evil in man's nature features an Introduction and the famous Cornell lecture on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Reissue.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dmitri Nabokov

First edition
Rips on the dust cover but pages and binding are like new
Published as photos of note cards handwritten by Nabokov that comprise the novel 
Published posthumously 

A Novel in Fragments

When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov's wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband's last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five--the Russian novelist's only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books--has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father's wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative--dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality--affords us one last experience of Nabokov's magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.

Photos of the handwritten index cards accompany the text. They are perforated and can be removed and rearranged, as the author likely did when he was writing the novel.

The Original of Laura

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel in English, was completed in Paris in 1938, first published by New Directions in 1941, reissued in 1959 to wide critical acclaim and now relaunched again, with an appreciative introduction by Pulitzer-Prize winning critic Michael Dirda.

This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight's death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the famous English novelist's life, but he is impeded by the false, the distorted, the irrelevant. Yet the search proves to be a story quite as intriguing as any of Sebastian Knight's own books, as baffling, and, in the end, as uniquely rewarding. On one level, this literary detective story has pungent points to make about the role of the artist in a society basically hostile to the creative spirit. On another, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight probes the essential problem of the ambiguity of human identity: Just who was Sebastian Knight?

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