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Subject: FictionDespair
Nabokov, Vladimir
/ NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1966
first printing of the first American edition; 222 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1266368
$47.04
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The Eye
Vladimir Nabokov
/ Phaedra Press 1965
first edition; 114 pp., hardcover, small hand stamp to the front free endpaper, else fine in a slightly darkened dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1266367
$19.59
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The Soul of an Artist. With an Introduction by L. D. Ventura
Neera, pseudonym of Anna Zuccari. E. L. Murison, translator
/ San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company 1905
first American edition; 126 pp., original boards & cloth backstrip, very good in an edge-rubbed printed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction
Item #: 1266365
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$191.10
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Frontier of the Unknown
Henri Queffelec
/ Secker & Warburg 1960
first British edition; 320 pp., hardcover, very good in a darkened, price-clipped dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction
Item #: 1266353
$19.60
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The Sweet Cheat Gone. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Proust, Marcel
/ NY: Albert & Charles Boni 1930
379 pp., original patterned cloth covered boards (hardcover), very good in a tattered dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1266349
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$96.03
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Home is the Hunter
Poncins, Gontran de Montaigne
/ Reynal & Hitchcock 1943
first American edition; 271 pp., original cloth (hardcover), very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction
Item #: 1266345
$16.66
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Less Than Zero (Contemporary American Fiction)
Ellis, Bret Easton
/ Viking Press 1986
signed by Brett Easton Ellis at the title page; 208 pp., Paperback, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0140088946
Subject/Keywords: fiction skx
Item #: 1265605
$44.10
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The Temple of Gnidus; followed by Cephisa and Cupid, and Arsaces and Ismenia. With a preface by Octave Uzanne. Illustrated with the original copper-plate engravings...
Montesquieu
/ London: Vizetelly & Co. 1885
limited to 150 numbered copies, with two sets of plates in black and sanguine on Japanese paper; 213, [2] pp., frontis. and pictorial title in two states, 24 plates with tissue guards; original boards & cloth backstrip (hardcover), book plate to the front paste down, covers worn, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction
Item #: 1265546
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The Temple of Gnidus; followed by Cephisa and Cupid, and Arsaces and Ismenia. With a preface by Octave Uzanne. Illustrated with the original copper-plate engravings...
Montesquieu
/ London: Vizetelly & Co. 1885
limited to 650 numbered copies; 213, [3] pp., frontis., pictorial title, 12 plates with tissue guards; original boards & cloth backstrip (hardcover), corners worn, edges rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction
Item #: 1265545
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$168.07
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Nabokov, Vladimir
/ New Directions 1959
first edition, first printing; 205 pp., original blue cloth (hardcover), fine in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265543
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Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov
/ New Directions 1960
first printing of the new edition; 292 pp., original blue cloth (hardcover), foxing to the endpapers, book plate to the front free endpaper, else very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket; the jacket flaps and adjoining paste downs have residue from previously mounted pieces of clear tape. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0811203263
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265542
$24.97
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Invitation to a Beheading
Nabokov, Vladimir
/ G.P. Putnam's Sons 1959
first printing of the first American edition; 223 pp., original gray boards & red cloth backstrip (hardcover), book plate and small number to the front free endpaper, else very good in a good dust jacket; the front panel of the jacket is rubbed. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265541
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Mary: A novel
Vladimir Nabokov
/ McGraw-Hill 1970
first edition, first printing; 114 pp., Hardcover, bottom corner of the front cover very lightly bumped, else fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 007045731X
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265539
$11.52
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The Waltz Invention
Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov
/ Phaedra Press 1966
first printing, first edition; 111 pp., original blue cloth (hardcover), covers lightly foxed, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265538
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Nabakov's Quartet
Nabokov, Vladimir
/ Phaedra Publishers 1966
first printing, first edition variant B; 104 pp., original gray cloth (hardcover), fine in a very good, slightly edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265537
$19.59
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Laughter In The Dark
Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokoff
/ Bobbs Merrill Company 1938
first printing of the first American edition; 292 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), slight spine slant, else very good in a good dust jacket; the jacket is edge-rubbed and has a stain to the inside surface that has bled through to the top corner of the rear panel. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265536
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$686.00
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Nabokov's Dozen: A collection of thirteen stories
Vladimir Nabokov
/ Doubleday 1958
first printing, first edition; 214 pp., Hardcover, book plate to the front paste down, else very good in an edge-worn dust jacket; the inside of the jacket is reinforced at the edges with clear tape. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265535
$18.62
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Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov
/ Doubleday 1957
first printing of the first American edition; 191 pp., original black cloth (hardcover), age-toning to the inner margins of the endpapers, very slight spotting to the top edge, else fine in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265540
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$186.20
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The Temple of the Dawn (The Sea of Fertility 3)
Mishima, Yukio
/ NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1973
first printing of the first American edition; 334 pp., hardcover, remainder stamp to the bottom edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0394466144
Subject/Keywords: japanese literature fiction
Item #: 1265530
$56.46
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1900 A.D.
Paul Morand
/ William Farquhar Payson 1931
first American edition; 206 pp., original batik boards & cloth backstrip (hardcover), lacks the jacket, spine slightly discolored, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature
Item #: 1265527
$16.33
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