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NIKOLAI GOGOL
by Nabokov, Vladimir
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near fine/Very good
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1944. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First edition, later issue. The fifth volume in The Makers of Modern Literature series. Octavo: 172 p. with a frontispiece portrait and one additional plate. Original tan cloth binding, with blue titles. A near fine copy in the second state dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig, with some mild toning and edgewear
Signed by the author on the front flyleaf:
Vladimir Nabokov
12 - VII - 1949
Salt Lake City
Nabokov (1899-1977) had the beginnings of Lolita knocking around in his head when he drove to Salt Lake City for the second Writers' Conference at the University of Utah (July 5-16, 1949). In attendance were Oscar Williams, Wallace Stegner, Martha Foley, and John Crowe Ransom - all formidable figures in the literary world, but none caught the attention of Nabokov quite like former political cartoonist and two-time author Ted Geisel, better known today as Dr. Seuss, with whom the Russian-American novelist shared a friendship for many years. Nabokov returned to Utah in 1956 to hunt butterflies and work on Pnin (1957), the novel which launched his career into literary prominence.
Signed by the author on the front flyleaf:
Vladimir Nabokov
12 - VII - 1949
Salt Lake City
Nabokov (1899-1977) had the beginnings of Lolita knocking around in his head when he drove to Salt Lake City for the second Writers' Conference at the University of Utah (July 5-16, 1949). In attendance were Oscar Williams, Wallace Stegner, Martha Foley, and John Crowe Ransom - all formidable figures in the literary world, but none caught the attention of Nabokov quite like former political cartoonist and two-time author Ted Geisel, better known today as Dr. Seuss, with whom the Russian-American novelist shared a friendship for many years. Nabokov returned to Utah in 1956 to hunt butterflies and work on Pnin (1957), the novel which launched his career into literary prominence.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74621
- Title
- NIKOLAI GOGOL
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literary Criticism, Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Utah
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