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Laughter in the Dark
by NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Directions Books, 1960. New American Translated Edition. First Printing, Juliar's variant b, with two lines of additional text added to the copyright page. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-292,[4]pp. Light wear to spine ends, faint foxing to text edges, else clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), showing modest wear, some scattered foxing, and a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. A new edition of Nabokov's first book published in the US; the combined print run for both variants of the first printing added up to a modest 2,958 copies. JULIAR A14.5.
Synopsis
Laughter in the Dark is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and released in 1932. The first English translation, Camera Obscura, was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 by Johnathan Long. Nabokov was so displeased by the quality of this effort that he undertook his own translation which was published in 1938 under the now common name Laughter in the Dark.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63595
- Title
- Laughter in the Dark
- Author
- NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New American Translated Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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