King, Queen, Knave
by NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1968. BCE. Hardcover. A book club edition of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, which he wrote while living in Berlin, and which first appeared in 1928. The story is centered around a young man who has an affair with a beautiful married woman who is disenchanted with her husband. Translated by author's son Dmitri Nabokov, with help from his father. Includes a foreword by the author. --- In charcoal and black cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt and in blind; orange topstain and endpapers. Dust jacket with Philippe Halsnan photographic portrait of Mr. Nabokov to back panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Jacket with tears and chips to edges but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xi, 272, (1) pages .
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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- Seller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 85525
- Title
- King, Queen, Knave
- Author
- NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- BCE
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- 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....
- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...