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NABOKOV**, VLADIMIR: : KING QUEEN KNAVE - translated by Dmitri Nabokov

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1968.

ISBN 0297761773.

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, b/w photographic author portrait illustrated upper wrap with white+blue lettering to upper wrap; publisher advert - author's other titles - to rear wrap,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and one tiny,closed tear to lower,rear edge.Top edge with a narrow,longitudinal, indeterminate fluid splash/stain near fore-edge - extending back approx. half the length of the top edges,fore-edges bright and minimally foxed; contents bright,tight and near pristine with no discolouring,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,unblemished,publisher's original blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-ixpp+1- 272pp [paginated] includes author foreword, 13 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages and 4pp blanks to rear. Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading. Originally published in Berlin,1928,this first English translation,in collaboration with the author,by Dmitri Nabokov,his son. Nabokov's early works,translated from the Russian,are his best,with his later,written in English,were much more fashionable. Nabokov published under the pseudonym 'Vladimir Sirin' in the 1920s to 1940s, occasionally to mask his identity from critics.He also makes cameo appearances in some of his novels,such as the character "Vivian Darkbloom" (an anagram of "Vladimir Nabokov"),who appears in both 'Lolita.' and 'Ada, or Ardor.',and the character Blavdak Vinomori (another anagram of Nabokov's name) in King, Queen, Knave.Sirin is referenced as a different émigré author in his memoir and is also referenced in Pnin - see my book ID rja1007822. This novel is the story of Dreyer,a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium.Ruddy,self-satisfied,and thoroughly masculine,he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife,Martha.Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion,she longs for their nephew instead, the thin,awkward,myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin,Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed. One of the 20THc's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899.He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College,Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris,where he launched a brilliant literary career.In 1940 he moved to the United States,and achieved renown as a novelist,poet,critic, and translator.He taught literature at Wellesley,Stanford,Cornell,and Harvard.In 1961 he moved to Montreux,Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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