'Look at the harlequins ... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality.' In the final novel published in Nabokov's lifetime, this is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris, his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'numerical nimbus syndrome'. Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of the works of Vladimir ...
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'Look at the harlequins ... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality.' In the final novel published in Nabokov's lifetime, this is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris, his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'numerical nimbus syndrome'. Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.
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Hardcover copy is in good, solid conditon, no dj, has some wear, unmarked text, first blank page may have inscription, a good copy. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Foxing on edges of text block. Dj shelf worn with water damage. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Good in Good dust jacket. 0070457387. First printing. From a smoker's library-light tobacco odor, foxing on edges, else good in a good (age toning) dust jacket.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. 253 p. four tape marks on binding, Dj since covered in mylar, minor rubbing ion bottom of spine otherwise very good copy
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. very nice first edition hardcover; unvlipped ($7.95) jacket has light shelf wear and edge browing; NOT ex-library; clean text.
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Very Good. 1974 McGraw Hill 1st edition 1st printing hard cover-some staining to page edge-slight wear to edge of dust jacket-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-a fine copy.