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THE NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS 1940-1971
by [Nabokov, Vladimir]; [Wilson, Edmund]; Karlinsky, Simon
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- first
- Condition
- Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition of the selected correspondence between to major midcentury literary figures, whose longstanding friendship became public over their "embittered 1965 debate" on Nabokov's translation of a Pushkin novel. 9'' x 6.25''. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In original unclipped ($15.00) brown typographic dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Gold endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. xii, 346 pages. Spine of book and jacket sunned, else clean and sound.
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- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45883
- Title
- THE NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS 1940-1971
- Author
- [Nabokov, Vladimir]; [Wilson, Edmund]; Karlinsky, Simon
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,1970s,1960s,US American,In Translation,Criticism
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- Spine
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