Search Results: Authors starting with N from Robert Dagg Rare Books

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1966]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. An earlier, and very scarce translation was published by John Long in 1937. Nabokov revised the earlier translation himself for this edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket (minor nick at base of spine, some light foxing along flap folds). Juliar A15.3.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1974]. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Paris: La Table Ronde, [1953]. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Pages slightly browned otherwise a fine copy in wrappers and original tissue.

New York: The Viking Press, [1968]. FIRST EDITION. An anthology which includes the entire text of Pnin with selections from three other novels, Despair, Invitation to a Beheading and The Gift. Also includes ten poems, 11 short stories, an extract from Nabokov's autobiography and a number of essays. There is also a long introduction by Stegner whose "Escape into Aesthetics" was the first book length study of Nabokov's work. A fine book in a dust jacket .

[New York: New Directions, 1947]. FIRST EDITION. Original pale blue wrappers. Some sunning to spine as well as some minor wear to yapp edges. Internally clean. Very good to near fine copy of this fragile volume.

Paris: La Table Ronde, [1953]. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Review copy with "S.P." marking on rear cover. Pages slightly browned otherwise a fine copy in wrappers and original tissue.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1973]. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a bright unfaded dust jacket which is about 1/8 -inch shorter than the book. All copies examined have had jackets shorter than the book.

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1963]. FIRST EDITION. Fine bright copy in dust jacket very slightly nicked at edges, spine panel just perceptibly faded.

New York: The Macmillan Company, [1964]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket (one short closed tear at bottom edge).

London: Penguin Books Ltd, [1969?]. FIRST EDITION THUS. Proof copy of the first Penguin Books edition. Printed on rectos only, bound in brown papers covers with a paper label on front cover. Wrappers and a few leaves slightly creased, but a very good copy. With numerous corrections throughout in an unknown hand in pencil and ink.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Some light foxing to top edges. Otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket (slightly creased at spine panel).

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. FIRST EDITION. Paperback. A fine copy in original wrappers. Text and Music of a song which appeared, in slightly Bowdlerized version, in Nash's book, Happy Days.

New York: Random House, [1955]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Stated. A fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket. Filmed in 1956, directed by Joseph Anthony and starring Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine copy in fine bright dust jacket.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1925. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor edgewear. Nice copy of this early Nathan title.

New York: House of Books, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Nathan. A fine copy in orginal glassine dust jacket (one tiny chip).

London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1926. FIRST EDITION. Some light foxing to page edges. Faint offsetting to front and rear free endpapers (from reaction to pastedowns). Cloth at spine very slightly faded. Else a very good to near fine book in a lovely fine dust jacket with a one-inch closed tear to bottom edge (at front flap fold). "In a sequence of sketches and reminiscences the unique nature of Windjammer life is laid bare. The glamour and the mystery attaching to the great oceans of the world shines through the narrative."

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1932. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Some foxing to early leaves. Else a near fine book in a fine bright dust jacket.

New York:: The John Day Company,, [1948].. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.. Hardcover. Small chip to upper corner of front flyleaf. Boards slightly bumped at spine ends. Very good in a nearly fine dust jacket, exceptionally bright and crisp but with a one-inch closed tear at bottom of rear flap fold.

New York:: The John Day Company,, [1948].. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.. Hardcover. Originally published in India, this first American printing has been revised and bears a new foreword and epilogue. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fine copy in a superb fine dust jacket.