Dmitri nabokov introduction (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (indicated by A). Hardbound. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Book has black remainder line across lower edge. Jacket is complete but has edge wear, particularly at head of spine (where there is a small chip too). A tight, clean copy. NOT price-clipped. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. 4700.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition 1st printing - 1 inch tear at top edge of dust jacket - minor stain to dust jacket and page edge - ink mark on page edge - otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean - enjoy.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 304 pages. 7.72x5.04x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition. Pristine, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA. But Nabokov's wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband's last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five---the Russian novelist's only surviving heir, and the translator of many of his books---has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father's wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative---dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality---affords us one last experience of Nabokov's magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work." [jacket copy] The cover notes it's 'A novel in fragments' and the title pages have its subtitle (Dying Is Fun). The text reproduces the original index cards the author wrote on, with the printed words on each page's lower half. This hefty book has a very slight---nigh unnoticeable---beump on the fore-edge top corner & a pristine jacket in a typically beautiful Knopf production. Introduction by Dmitri Nabokov.…

hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1984. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Pristine. As new. Unread.

First edition of Nabokov's final and incomplete novel which he was in the process of writing at the time of his death in 1977. Octavo, original pictorial cloth. Signed by Dmitri Nabokov on the title page and additionally signed three times by the jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the title page, front panel and on the rear flap of the jacket. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the original index cards that comprised the unfinished manuscript with accompanying printed annotations. Introduction by Dmitri Nabokov. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Although Nabokov requested that the unfinished manuscript of his final novel be destroyed upon his death, his son Dmitri finally made the decision to publish the work in 2008, just over 30 years after his father's death in 1977. The incomplete manuscript consisted of 138 handwritten index cards, a method Nabokov used often to compose many of his best-known works including Lolita and Pale Fire. Scholars and enthusiasts disagreed over whether or not the manuscript should be published because of Nabokov's reputation for perfectionism in his work.…