Search Results: Authors starting with N from Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First American Edition. The author's first book published in the U.S., and the first appearance of own translation of the novel into English - the story of a blind man betrayed by his wife and her lover. Originally translated by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 under the title Camera Obscura, Nabokov was so displeased with the translation's quality that he undertook the effort himself. A lovely copy, unrestored, and without the usual heavy wear typically seen on the dustjacket. Juliar A14.2. Octavo (21.5cm); in the first issue green cloth binding, titled, blocked, and decorated in gilt and navy blue on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-292pp. Trivial wear to spine ends, some offsetting to pastedowns, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with a hint of sunning to spine, a single, tiny tear at lower edge of rear panel, and some pinpoint rubs to spine ends and corners; very Near Fine.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First Edition. A monumental association copy of Nabokov's own adaptation for the film version of his 1955 novel. The recipient, Irving Paul Lazar (1907-1933), was a legendary talent agent and dealmaker who represented both the Hollywood elite, and a stable of authors that included Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Larry McMurtry, William Saroyan, and others. In July of 1959, Nabokov was approached by Stanley Kubrick and James Harris, who had acquired the film rights to Lolita, to write the screenplay. Over the next year, he painstakingly wrote and re-wrote the screenplay until delivering his 400pp draft to Kubrick and Harris in the summer of 1960. "At one point, Kubrick told Nabokov that the screenplay was "much too unwieldy, contained too many unnecessary episodes, and would take about seven hours to run." Nabokov put the screenplay on a crash diet and submitted his final version on 8-Sep-1960. Harris and Kubrick called it the… Read More

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972. Second British Edition. Nabokov's second novel in English, first published by Henry Holt in 1947. A dystopian novel set in the fictitious European city of Padukgrad, centered around a civilized philosopher, Adam Krug, who is caught up in the tyranny of a police state. A distinguished copy, inscribed to Nabokov scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli on the publication day of Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977 - an extensive volume, which Bruccoli edited together with Nabokov's son Dmitri. Juliar A24.5. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,217,[1]pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Vera and Dmitri Nabokov to Matthew J. Bruccoli: "For our dear friend Matt Bruccoli on the occasion of the publication of Letters in September. Montreux. 17 June 1989 / Vera Nabokov / Dmitri Nabokov." Light wear to spine ends and corners, gentle sunning to upper board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American Edition. New. Sharp copy of the Trinidadian author's first book, a satirical novel set in Trinidad's Hindu community. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); full black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and metallic red on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [vi],436,[6]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $7.95), with faint, vertical creases running the length of both flaps. The Trinidadian author's first novel.

[New Hyde Park, NY & Allentown, PA: National Tattoo Association, 2013. Fifteen original illustrated posters, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring ca.28cm x 43.5cm (11" x 17"). Light wear to extremities, some minor handling, and faint horizontal folds smoothed out a center; Near Fine overall. An attractive group of publicity posters produced for National Tattoo Association (NTA) conventions around the country from 1989-2013. The NTA, formerly the National Tattoo Club of the World, is one of the longest-running tattoo organizations in the United States, founded in New York in 1976 and run continuously since. They were responsible for putting on 39 tattoo conventions between 1979-2018, each in a different city, which over time grew to be among the largest and most prominent expos for tattoo art and culture. Twelve of the fifteen posters in this grouping were designed by legendary Southern California tattoo artist Jack Rudy, proprietor of Tattooland, a fairly prominent shop in Anaheim,… Read More

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1972. Second edition. A stunning copy of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winner's collection of poetry, and a masterpiece of design and typograhy by Andrés Ramón Vászquez and Silvio Baldessari. Octavo; illustrated wrappers printed in black white, red and yellow; dustjacket; 383pp, [5]. A fresh, Fine copy in like dustjacket.

Santiago: Editorial Nascimento, 1954. Limited Edition. The definitive edition of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winner's finest longer poems, published in honor of his 50th birthday celebration. Inspired by his journey to the ancient Peruvian city nestled in the Andes, the poem would later become the second part of Neruda's Canto General. Loyola 313; Becco 97; Fisher 47. One of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.529. Quarto (27cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [ii],[4],5-77,[5]pp; with photographic illustrations throughout by Martin Chambi. Moderate wear to wrapper extremities, with some toning and scattered soil to same, and a few contemporary holograph notes (in ink) on rear wrapper; Chilean booksellers rubber-stamp to preliminary blank, with scattered foxing to text edges and margins; Very Good, lacking the bibliographic insert on green stock.

Monterey, CA: Polygon Press, 1967. First Edition. Collection of 10 poems by Nolan, with the cover designed and silkscreened by "Kles." One of only four titles produced by this Monterey-based small press. OCLC finds 10 copies in U.S. institutions. First Printing, trade issue, one of 90 copies (from a total edition of 100). Small quarto (24cm); mimeographed sheets, printed on recto and verso and side-stapled into illustrated silkscreened wrappers; publisher's logo and address rubber-stamped on rear wrapper; [16]pp. Some trivial wear to corner tips, else Fine.