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The Original of Laura
by Vladimir Nabokov
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0141191155
- ISBN 13
- 9780141191157
- Seller
-
Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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.
Synopsis
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His acclaimed works of fiction include Lolita, Pnin, and Pale Fire, among others. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018135
- Title
- The Original of Laura
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0141191155
- ISBN 13
- 9780141191157
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 278
- Keywords
- FICTION NOVELS LOVE ROMANCE LOVE GONE WRONG TRIANGLE GUILT RETRIBUTION TAUNTING ADULTERY HUMILIATION INFIDELITY
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
We are a small family business located in Blackpool, England. We stock a varied range of Antiquarian and Collectable Books; Antiquarian Holy Bibles, Fine Bindings, Literature, Poetry, Military, Travel, First Editions, Illustrated, Childrens', Signed Books and more.
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Fine
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- Copyright page
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