ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
¡Habla Memoria! [Speak, Memory]
Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, (1963). Mass market paperback, wrappers lightly worn and toned, very good. Paperback reprint of the first Spanish-language edition. cf. Juliar D26.3. More
Han som spelade schack med livet. [The Defense]; Introduction by Anders Osterling, Translation by Ellen Rydelius
Stockholm: Bonniers, (1936). First Swedish edition. Yellow wrappers, fine. Juliar A10.2. More
Invitation to a Beheading
New York: Putnam, 1959. First English language edition. Gray patterned paper backed in red cloth, red top-stain. Mild extremity wear, small square of sticker residue to front endpaper, a very good copy, in a dust jacket, with shallow chipping along the top edge, and a long scratch on the front..... More
Invitation to a Beheading
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. First British edition. Black cloth, spine slanted, light spotting to top edge and endpapers, Rhodesian bookseller label to front endpaper, else a very good copy. Dust jacket worn and chipped to extremities, tear to front panel, price-clipped, good. Juliar A16.3. More
Invitation to a Beheading
New York: Fawcett, (1960). First wrappers edition. White wrappers, small loss to corner of back cover and last few leaves, else fine. Juliar A16.4. More
King, Queen, Knave
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1968). Book Club edition. Black cloth, top edge stained red. Fine, dust jacket lightly worn at extremities, otherwise nearly fine. Juliar A9.2, BCE variant "a" More
La dádiva [The Gift]. Traducción de Carmen Giralt
Barcelona: Anagrama, (1988). Wrappers, fine lightly worn and toned, very good. Paperback reprint of the first Spanish-language edition. cf. Juliar D26.3. More
La vraie vie de Sébastian Knight. Traduit de l'anglais et préfacé par Yvonne Davet
Paris: Gallimard, (1962). first French-language edition, second issue. Original wrappers, near-fine, unopened copy. Apparently the sheets of the A. Michel edition, published in 1951, with new wrappers. Juliar A21.2. More
La vraie vie de Sébastian Knight. Traduit de l'anglais et préfacé par Yvonne Davet
Paris: Albin Michel, (1951). first French-language edition, first issue. A service de presse (review) copy, inscribed by the translator to Giacomo Antonini, literary critic and spy. Original wrappers, very good. Juliar A21.2. More
Laughter in the Dark
New York: Berkley, (1958). New wrappers edition. Pictorial wrappers, fine copy. Juliar A14.4. More
Lectures on Don Quixote; Edited by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by Guy Davenport
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1983). First edition. Tan boards backed in cream cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Juliar A54.1. More
Lectures on Russian Literature; Edited, with an Introduction, by Fredson Bowers
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1981). First edition. Blue printed wrappers, fine. Uncorrected proof copy. The publication details are printed on the cover, nothing is glued on as in the example described by Juliar. Signed by publisher, editor, and scholar Matthew Bruccoli. Juliar E53.1. More
Letters, 1940-1977
San Diego: Harcourt Brace, (1989). First edition. Uncorrected proof copy. Blue wrappers. Near fine. More
Lolita. Roman
Hamburg: Rowohlt, (1964). Reissue of the first German language edition, later printing. White wrappers, spine and pages toned, crown of spine bumped, very good. See Juliar D28.8. More
Lolita: A Screenplay
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1974). First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Green wrappers. Nearly fine, spine slightly faded, faint staining to front cover. Juliar E45.1. More
Look at the Harlequins!
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1974). First edition. Black cloth, fine, in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight wear to the extremities. Juliar A46.1. More
The Man from the USSR and Other Plays. With Two Essays on the Drama.
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1984). First edition. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof copy. Marked "Press Copy" on front cover, with first page, with additional information handwritten on the spine and first page. Finger marks in blue printer's ink on some pages. Juliar E55.1. More
Nabokov's Dozen
New York: Popular Library, (1958). New American wrappers edition. Black wrappers, ownership signature, otherwise nearly fine. Juliar A32.4. More
Nabokov's Dozen. A Collection of Thirteen Stories
Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. First edition. Black cloth. Ownership signature to front endpaper, else fine, in fine dust jacket. Juliar A32.1. More