Lectures on Literature: Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson
by Nabokov, Vladimir
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Plus
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Nice copy. Unmarked, tight copy in its first printing. Light blue boards with gold lettering. Light to moderate foxing to top page edges only. Price intact jacket has light rubbing, short closed tear. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017537
- Title
- Lectures on Literature: Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- San Diego
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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