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New York, NY Harcourt, Brace & Co: Harvest/HBJ Books, 1981. Paperback Book-Club Edition [1981]. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities, with a mild bump to the bottom of the front hinge; else only the faintest sunning to the rust-red background field of the backstrip (the titles thereon remain bold and clearly legible). Binding square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 352 pages. Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers. Apparent Book Club Edition, published in 1981, a year before the Mariner paperback edition was published. Has no price on the cover; otherwise doesn't show any of the other indications of a Book-Club edition and there is no statement to that effect. Paperback. 

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Nice copy. Unmarked, tight copy in its first printing. Red boards with gold lettering both bright and fresh. Faint dampstain to bottom page edges mostly the first 30 pages but no color change or rippling. Price intact jacket has only very light wear. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine to Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Nice copy. Unmarked, tight copy in its first printing. Red boards with gold lettering both bright and fresh. Light foxing to top page edges only, else fine. Price intact jacket has only very light wear. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine to Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover..

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New York: Harcourt, 2017. Binding: Hardcover, dust jacket Pages: 324 Complete edition of classical Nabokov's lectures on Russian Literature. His subjects here are "Russian Writers, Censors, and Readers," Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorki, "Philistines and Philistinism," and "The Art of Translation." Nabokov delivers his remarks with a compelling blend of wit, iconoclasm, and critical genius, skillfully guiding us through the intricacies of plot and character in the books he discusses, caressing the details, explaining their significance, and illuminating the artistic accomplishments of the authors. Thirty-eight illustrations show the care with which Nabokov prepared these lectures. There are, for example, his drawings of a Russian tennis dress and a skating costume similar to those mentioned in Anna Karenin, and a plan for the sleeping car in which Anna rode from Moscow to St. Petersburg. His diligent retranslations of the standard English texts are shown in sample pages from his… Read More