The Gift. Vladimir Nabokov.
The Gift

The Gift

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1963.

8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, orange top stain, 378pp. First Edition. Review copy with tipped-in publisher’s slip. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) with moderate toning and rubbing to panels. Light fading to cloth, bumping to board corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first English language edition of Nabokov’s final novel in Russian, translated by Michael Scammell with the collaboration of the author. The story of an impoverished poet seeking fame in interwar Berlin. A very good copy in mylar. 
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Price: $75.00

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