Nabokov's Dozen : A Collection of Thirteen Stories
by Nabokov, Vladimir
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 214 pages. First American edition. The black boards are rubbed, the front one stained by two small silver marks; there is an ownership stamp on the front end paper, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. A near fine copy in good ++ boards. "Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen.In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again. Two of the stories, 'First Love' and 'Mademoiselle O', are autobiographical, and 'The Assistant Producer' is based on real events, but the rest are pure flights of fantasy - or the stuff that life is weaved of?" CONTENTS: Spring in Fialta; A Forgotten Poet; First Love; Signs and Symbols; The Assistant Producer; The Aurelian; Cloud, Castle Lake; Conversation piece,1945.; "That in Aleppo once ..." ; Time and Ebb; Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster; Mademoiselle O; Lance.
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- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020440
- Title
- Nabokov's Dozen : A Collection of Thirteen Stories
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions Vladimir Nabokov Short Stories
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Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.
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