King, Queen, Knave
by Nabokov, Vladimir
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tolar, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1968. Cover is bumped, rubbed & sunned with edgewear, there is two small holes on spine. Pgs. are clean & tight. Is signed by owner.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
Synopsis
Originally written in 1928, it was translated from Russian to English by Nabokov's son in 1968. The novel is the story of well-to-do Dreyer, who has a lovely but terriby cold wife, named Martha. Bored, manipulative Martha plots to make a lover of Dreyer's nephew, Franz, when he comes to work for Dreyer in Berlin.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Top Notch books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 231280
- Title
- King, Queen, Knave
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McGraw - Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Fiction & Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Amazon;
- Size
- 8vo
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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