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The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts. by Nabokov, Vladimir - 1966

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The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts. by Nabokov, Vladimir - 1966

The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts.

by Nabokov, Vladimir

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New York: Phaedra Publishers, Inc, 1966. First American edition of Nabokov's prophetic tragicomedy. Octavo, original blue cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.     In an unnamed country in 1935, inventor Salvator Waltz declares that he controls a new machine of immense destructive power called Telemort that has the capability to destroy mountains, cities, and even countries. Dismissed by the Minister of War, Waltz proceeds to conduct a series of escalating experimental explosions after which he is captured and institutionalized.
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  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Phaedra Publishers, Inc
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1966
  • Keywords first edition, The Waltz Invention, Vladimir Nabokov

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Phaedra Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Waltz Invention

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Phaedra Publishers, 1966 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 111 pages, translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov. Edges tanning, several pages with a hooked pressure dent, light bend to many of the lower corners. The jacket is lightly worn, sunned on the spine..
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The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts

The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts

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NY: Pocket Books. F. 1967. 1st Printing. Paperback. Pocket Books #75233, 1967. Stated First Pocket Cardinal edition. Fine condition. Mild age toning to the pages. .
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The Waltz Invention

The Waltz Invention

by Nabokov, Vladimir

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U.S.: Pocket, 1967. Solid with two corner creases on the back cover. There is a ball point pen mark on the top left corner of the inside front cover.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good.
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NY: Phaedra. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov. First edtion thus. A few white damp marks along bottom edges of cloth covered boards, else very good in a very good (corresponding bleeding along bottom edges of front and rear panels on the verso) blue variant dust jacket. .
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NY: Phaedra. VG+/VG. 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. First edition, some edgewear to the DJ. ; .
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Phaedra, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy of the first edition in a near fine jacket (jacket has fading to spine and slight edge and surface wear). [8],111pp First English-language publication of Nabokov's 1938 play, originally written in Russian on the French Riviera. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov; author's foreword.
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NY: Phaedra, 1966. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 111. Blue cloth. Slightly scuffed t corners, o/w a nice copy; no dj.
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WALTZ INVENTION

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New York, NY: Phaedra. VG/G. 1966. First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 111 pp., DJ spine faded, shelfwear .
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New York: Phaedra, Inc., 1966. First edition stated on copyright page with publishers address there. Faint lean. Unmarked. A Play in three acts. Price intact jacket is clean with no color fade. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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