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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
by Vladimir Nabokov
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good, light fading along edges, slight cant to spine, previous owner's name and address on title page, bottom corners fraye/Very Good jacket, chipping to crown and tail of jacket spine, price clipped, general chipping and wear along edges, soiling on r
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959. 8vo, in blue cloth boards with silver lettering and blue decoration on spine, in illustrated jacket, 205 pp. Very Good, light fading along edges, slight cant to spine, previous owner's name and address on title page, bottom corners frayed./Very Good jacket, chipping to crown and tail of jacket spine, price clipped, general chipping and wear along edges, soiling on rear panel.. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff, jacket illustration by Michael Train..
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 554
- Title
- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff, jacket illustration by Michael Train.
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, in blue cloth boards with silver lettering and blue decoration on spine, in illustrated jacket, 205 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, light fading along edges, slight cant to spine, previous owner's name and address on title page, bottom corners fraye
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, chipping to crown and tail of jacket spine, price clipped, general chipping and wear along edges, soiling on r
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- nabokov, lolita, new directions
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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