LAUGHTER IN THE DARK

by Vladimir Nabokoff, Nabokov

$3,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First American Edition. The author's first book published in the U.S., and the first appearance of own translation of the novel into English - the story of a blind man betrayed by his wife and her lover. Originally translated by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 under the title Camera Obscura, Nabokov was so displeased with the translation's quality that

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