Despair

Book Description

NY: Putnam. (1966). The first American edition, and the second English translation of this novel that first appeared in Russian. Nabokov did both the translations, first for a British edition that was published in 1937 and then, nearly 30 years later, for this edition. He also revised the text somewhat and, according to an author's note, reinstated "an important passage which had been stupidly omitted in more timid times." A bit of foxing to top edge and a small sticker abrasion to the flyleaf, else a fine copy in a very near fine, slightly dusty first issue jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover.

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