The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
by Nabokov, Vladimir
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Editions Poetry London. Very Good. 1945. First U.K. Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in brown cloth boards. No dust jacket. First printing of first British edition (1945) . Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Brown boards are sunned and title on spine is nearly illegible. Text pages (on thin paper) are unblemished. Small Chicago bookstore sticker on rear pastedown page. 12mo. 181 pp. .
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- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84474
- Title
- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Editions Poetry London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Lolita
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...