Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First printing in this format. Number 122 of two hundred numbered copies of 226 . Portrait by Andrew Hoyem. 2 vols. 4to, and small oblong 8vo. Gilt lettered silk over boards. Fine in slipcase, with prospectus laid in. Item #374181 Pprinted by Hoyem and associates on Somerset mould-made paper. The smaller volume prints separately the text of the poem referenced in the novel, in the format of Nabokov's index

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