NABOKOV, Vladimir. Pnin
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Pnin. London: Heinemann. 1957. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jerzy Faczyński. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the spine tips just gently pushed, but the binding tight and square. The contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (13s 6d net) with pasted-on promotion for Lolita, with blurb by Rebecca West, to the rear flap. A few light marks to the front panel, but a bright and sharp copy overall.
A sharp copy of this, the first British edition, preceded by the US edition by five months. The novel concerns the goings-on of ludicrous yet monolithic comic hero, the emigre Russian scholar, Timofey Pnin.
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Pnin. London: Heinemann. 1957. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jerzy Faczyński. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the spine tips just gently pushed, but the binding tight and square. The contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (13s 6d net) with pasted-on promotion for Lolita, with blurb by Rebecca West, to the rear flap. A few light marks to the front panel, but a bright and sharp copy overall.
A sharp copy of this, the first British edition, preceded by the US edition by five months. The novel concerns the goings-on of ludicrous yet monolithic comic hero, the emigre Russian scholar, Timofey Pnin.
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Pnin. London: Heinemann. 1957. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jerzy Faczyński. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the spine tips just gently pushed, but the binding tight and square. The contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (13s 6d net) with pasted-on promotion for Lolita, with blurb by Rebecca West, to the rear flap. A few light marks to the front panel, but a bright and sharp copy overall.
A sharp copy of this, the first British edition, preceded by the US edition by five months. The novel concerns the goings-on of ludicrous yet monolithic comic hero, the emigre Russian scholar, Timofey Pnin.