Poems (First edition)
by Vladimir Nabokov
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. State First Edition, with A26 mark present. Pale flecks on blue bloth boards, gilt lettering & buttefly design still bright; solid binding, sharp edges, end pages foxed with owner initial present; otherwise unmarked, a few random age spots in text. Jacket fair, not price clipped but heavily shelf rubbed, thin yellow dribble above title.
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- Bookseller
- Eighth Day Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 196291
- Title
- Poems (First edition)
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1959
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- Price Clipped
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
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