The Original Of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov - 2009: (Dying Is Fun) A Novel in Fragments (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Books, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Books, 2010-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x1.

Penguin Books, 2010-01-01. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs, creases & small tears in a mylar cover.

Penguin Books, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Penguin Books, 2010. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Scanned note card images throughout. Tight copy. Record # 471182

London, U.K.: Penguin Books, 2010 The dust jacket little wear, with a small scuff on the front. 280 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Hardback. 2009. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov. xxi, 278pp Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, London, 2009. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. .

London: Penguin Classics, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Pictorial Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 2009 first edition, first printing with number 1 to copyright page. Size octavo, 9.25" tall, 278 pages. Pictorial cloth the design being reproduction of Nabokov's ms notes that formed the fragments of the novel. Paste-downs start as white at the outer edge and then fade in to black on the end-paper, with the dust jacket. Book condition fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition near fine, slight ripple to the edges otherwise fine, not price clipped. Each page is printed on grey paper and includes 138 colour reproductions of the index cards on which the novel was originally written. Nabokov instructed in his will for the manuscript to be burned but his family couldn't bring themselves to do that and kep the manuscript locked in a vault of a Swiss bank for more than three decades.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing with numberline "1" to copyright page. Very Good+, clean, tight condition, in Very Good+ original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £25.00). No inscriptions.

When Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 hand-written index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But his wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband's last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, the Russian novelist's only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books, wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father's wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision to finally allow the publication of the fragmented narrative - dark yet playful, preoccupied with morality - affords us one last experience of Nabokov's magnificent creativity,… Read More

London: Penguin Classics, 2009. First Edition. Hardback. Very Fine/Very Fine. The Book is very fine, square, tight and unread. It is unmarked, with clean pages free of inscriptions or marks and is still sealed in publishers film wrap. The Dust Jacket is very fine, unfaded, unclipped (no price) and is free of rips, tears or marks. First Edition. All our books are covered with a clear, removable, chemically inert, protective wrapper before being securely bubble wrapped and dispatched in strong corrugated cardboard boxes.