The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

by Nabokov, Vladimir

$1,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. Review copy with stamp on flyleaf stating date of Publication as Dec 12, 1941 (5 days after Pearl Harbor). 205, [1, printer's imprint) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Coarse red burlap with paper labels on cover and spine. Fine, in dust jacket with some old tape repairs and edge rubbing, good or better. First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. Review copy with stamp on flyleaf stating date of Publication as Dec 12, 1941 (5 days after Pearl Harbor). 205, [1, printer's imprint) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nabokov's first English language novel and the first published under his name. Of a total edition of 1500 copies, 749 were bound in the first issue cloth. The design choice of the coarse burlap binding, against the thin paper dust jacket, assured the destruction of many a jacket. Review copies, and copies with the dust jacket, are rare. Juliar A21.a, issue a

• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 1941
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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