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NABOKOV IN AMERICA: On the Road to Lolita.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bloomsbury, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in America - where he and Vera arrived in 1943, fleeing the Nazis. Roper discusses Nabokov's friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, but focuses on the journeys - 200,000 miles of them - which he took in the West, with his wife, Vera, and son Dmitri, in search of butterflies - on the two-lane highways and the roadside motels that he brings to life in Lolita. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs/ Bibliography, notes. 333 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76489More details Price: $35.00 -
NABOKOV IN AMERICA: On the Road to Lolita.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bloomsbury, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in America - where he and Vera arrived in 1943, fleeing the Nazis. Roper discusses Nabokov's friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, but focuses on the journeys - 200,000 miles of them - which he took in the West, with his wife, Vera, and son Dmitri, in search of butterflies - on the two-lane highways and the roadside motels that he brings to life in Lolita. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs/ Bibliography, notes. 333 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 84637More details Price: $30.00 -
RECOVERING AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc. (1995.). Looks at the treatment of 5 American classics by academic critics: Hawthrone's The Scarlet Letter, Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Melville's Moby Dick and Billy Budd and James's The Bostonians. 203 pp. with notes and index. ISBN: 1-56663-0959.
Condition: Near fine (an unread copy, but with a very short tear to upper edge of front cover.)
Book ID: 26573More details Price: $9.00 -
CARL VAN VECHTEN AND THE TWENTIES.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the life and work of Van Vechten - as a novelist, as a music critic and as a photographer - during this period of transition and change in American life. Illustrated with photographs by Van Vechten himself, Man Ray and others. Bibliography, index, 150 pages.
Condition: Very good in a somewhat edgeworn and rubbed dustjacket (prev owner's name, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 16486More details Price: $30.00