Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian novelist. Nabokov's first nine novels were written in Russian, but his international acclaim did not begin until he started writing in English. His most notable works include Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory.
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Berlin: Gleb Alekseev, 1923. First edition. The earliest published long poem by Nabokov, very rare in the market. Read More Item Details for "Peterburg. Poema" by V. Sirin in Peterburg V Stikhotvoreniiakh Russkikh Poetvo (St. Petersburg in the Poems of Russian Poets) Add to Wish List
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Paris: Gallimard, 1962. First French edition, trade edition. Read More Item Details for Pnine. Traduit de l'anglais par Michel Chrestien Add to Wish List
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Paris: The Olympia Press, 1957. First eiditon. A collection of essays in defense of Lolita, written while it was banned in France by the Minister of the Interior. Read More Item Details for L'Affaire Lolita: Defense De L'Ecrivain Add to Wish List
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Paris: Gallimard, 1959. First French edition, copy C of six copies lettered A-F, on vélin Lafuma-Navarre, hors commerce. Read More Item Details for Lolita. Traduit de l'anglais par E. H. Kahane Add to Wish List
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Norfolk: New Directions, [1941]. First edition, first issue binding in the coarse red burlap. Review copy with stamp on flyleaf stating date of Publication as Dec 12, 1941 (5 days after Pearl Harbor). Nabokov's first English language novel and the first published under his name. Of a total edition of..... Read More Item Details for The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Add to Wish List
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London: Heinemann, [1958]. First British edition, uncorrected proof. Read More Item Details for Nabokov’s Dozen. A Collection of Thirteen Stories [Uncorrected Proof] Add to Wish List
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Frederiksberggade: Hans Reitzel, 1957. First Danish edition. The first published translation of Lolita, along with the Swedish translation, which was withdrawn at Nabokov's request, due to its poor quality. Read More Item Details for Lolita Add to Wish List
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Warsaw: Rossica, Winter 1927-1928. First edition. Publisher's catalogue for the Polish-Russian publishing Rossica, featuring two items of Nabokoviana: -- V. Sirin's Mashen'ka (Mary) (p. 15), first published Berlin: Slovo, 1926 -- Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov's Trials of a Diplomat (p. 34). Read More Item Details for Rossica. Catalog No. 22 Add to Wish List
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1957. First edition. Read More Item Details for Pnin Add to Wish List
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Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First American edition, first issue binding. Nabokov's first book published in America. It was originally published as Camera Obscura in 1936, in a translation by Winifred Roy that so displeased Nabokov that he translated the book again, himself. He would eventually translate..... Read More Item Details for Laughter in the Dark Add to Wish List
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[Montreux: 1966]. A rarely-seen portrait of Nabokov hunting butterflies, an outtake from the shots Halsman made to appear with Herbert Gold's profile of the author in the Saturday Evening Post (eventually published in January 1967). Nabokov apparently liked Halsman's portraits so much that he asked they be used on all..... Read More Item Details for Vladimir Nabokov chasing butterflies near his home. Montreux, Switzerland. 1966 Add to Wish List
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London: Corgi Books, 1969. Fourteenth Corgi paperback edition, first reissue. This late British paperback reissue of Nabokov's controversial masterpiece — featuring Bert Stern's famous 1960 publicity photograph of Sue Lyon as Lolita on the cover — was released just twenty days prior to the author inscribing it in Russian to..... Read More Item Details for Lolita Add to Wish List
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New York: Signet Books, 1950. First Signet paperback edition, inscribed on the first page, with additional notation on cover. Originally serialized as Camera Obscura in the Paris-based expatriate Russian literary journal Sovremennye zapiski from 1932–33, this dark, ultimately tragic psychological novella — considered a precursor to Lolita — was not..... Read More Item Details for Laughter in the Dark Add to Wish List
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New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1959]. First American edition. The first of Nabokov’s novels to be translated into English. Read More Item Details for Invitation to a Beheading. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov Add to Wish List
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Indianapolis, Ind: Bobbs, Merrill, [1938]. First American edition, variant (possibly later) issue in light brown cloth. Published in England under the title, CAMERA OBSCURA, this is the first book by Vladimir Nabokov to be printed in the United States. There was a variant issue in green cloth. Read More Item Details for Laughter in the Dark Add to Wish List
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[New York]: Phaedra, [August 15, 1966]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Nabokov's Quartet Add to Wish List
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New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1966]. First American edition. Read More Item Details for Despair Add to Wish List
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