Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1960. FIRST EDITION, octavo black cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, 192pp, VG+ (v. sl. soiling to boards, ever so slightly cocked, prev. bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, moderate tanning and occasional foxing to edges, light tanning within) in d/w VG (light to moderate creasing scuffing & rubbing)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 269262
Title: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Author: NABOKOV, VLADIMIR
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1960
Keywords: vladimir nabokov russo-american literature russian american modern first edition

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Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
SL.: slight
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...