THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT [Signed]
$10,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
Norfolk, CN: New Directions, 1941. First Limited Edition, First Printing, One of 1500. Hardcover. Octavo, 205 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Tan spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$2.50", has mild shelving wear, small open tears along the extremities, stains throughout, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards are bound in knitted red cloth, have mild wear along the edges, mild age-toning along the edges, and light fraying along the spine head edge. Textblock has light soiling on few pages, stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, a "Rogerdow" bookplate on the front pastedown, pen dating on the front pastedown, mild wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning along the edges. Inscription on the front end-page reading "For [embossed name] Roger Dow with kindest regards From V. Nabokov", dated "1942". Limited edition, one of 1500. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 2. Review copy with publisher's publication stamp on the front end-page, one of 1500 copies. Inscribed to Roger Dow, a scholar of Russian history and author of "Prostor a Geopolitical Study of Russia and the United States", a piece published in the first volume of the "Russian Review", itself an academic journal dedicated to the study of the history and culture of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Vladimir Nabokov was born April 22, 1899 in Saint Petersburg in the former Russian Empire to a wealthy noble family
- Publisher: New Directions
- Year: 1941
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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