Nabokov's First American Book Publication, in his Translation
Laughter in the Dark.
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
First American edition, first issue binding. 292 pp. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt designs and black spine label on spine. Near fine, with some pages towards the end clumsily cut, in original dust jacket with very short closed tear along the top of the front hinge, a crease to the spine, and some light shelfwear. Juliar A14.2.
Item #374250
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 all of his novels originally published in Russian.
