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Good. Size: 6x4x0; Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show light edge wear and rubbing.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Fair. 1964 Putnam Press hardcover, exlibrary copy with jacket under mylar, unmarked text and solid but with considerable reading wear and exlibrary stamps. Fast Shipping-Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!
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Good. 1964. vBinding is tight, text block is sturdy and clean, boards straight, no highlights or underlining. Dust wrapper shows some minor chipping/rubbing to edges. Mild tanning to DJ, tanning to pages. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First American edition. Translated by Michael Scammell. Bumped board edge and pages bumped else near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning and tiny tears.
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Good. Size: 8x5x1; 1964 Putnam hard cover-1st edition 1st printing-some wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to cover and page edge-otherwise binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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Very Good in Very Good Minus jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., dj has light tanning to spine and some margins with minor wear to spine ends and bottom edge of front panel. verso of dj shows an old dampstain to top of spine. no foxing anywhere. vertical wrinkle to front pastedown due to binder's error. no chips, not clipped, no tears. no writing, names, labels or markings. strong binding. a nice copy of this first english language hard cover. translated by michael scammell, in collaboration with the author., 256pp., contains nabokov's foreword.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition in English. Translated by Michael Scammell. Light foxing on page edges, near fine in a very good lightly age-toned dustwrapper with spine ends nicked.
An earlier work, this novel is a well-thought-out story of a troubled genius. The setting and characters are recognizable as being from Nabokov?s world. The old world European lifestyle, somewhat smelly and pompous, isn?t my cup of tea, but the flow of language and the unfolding of the plotline are very good. Chess is a main focus, but the development of the main characters? lives and downfalls are the thought-provoking centerpieces. The last scene demanded to be read several times. It was a bit shocking. The prefaces to many of Nabokov?s works give valuable insight into his goals and motivations. He was kind to share them. While certainly not even close to later pieces such as Pale Fire, this is a decent novel. There is a movie based on the book, though it tends to focus more on the relationship/lovey-dovey stuff than on the struggle/battle that is the real issue. It is worth reading, if only once.
