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Northampton, MA.: The S.4.N. Society, November 1922.. 3rd anniversary number. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Tipped-in printed slip. Wrappers creased nicked and dust soiled; internally very good. Edited and published by Norman Fitts, in association with Ramon Guthrie, J.P. Bishop, Gorham Munson, E.E. Cummings, Thornton Wilder, Jean Toomer, et al. S.4.N (named for the printer's abbrev. for 'space for name') took its base in the assumption that "out of a comparison of opposed viewpoints...co... more information

Northampton, MA.: The S.4.N. Society, February 1924.. Whole number 32. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrappers dustsoiled, nicked and a bit foxed, with quarter size section of erosion at lower left corner of upper wrapper. Internally about very good. Edited and published by Norman Fitts, in association with Ramon Guthrie, J.P. Bishop, Gorham Munson, E.E. Cummings, Thornton Wilder, Jean Toomer, et al. S.4.N (named for the printer's abbrev. for 'space for name') took its base in the assumption th... more information

Paris: La Table Ronde, [1953].. Printed wrappers. First edition in French, translated by Marcelle Sibon. A very good copy. FIELD 1173. JULIAR D22.1. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, [1979].. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition. Edited by Simon Karlinsky. Near fine in dust jacket. ... more information

[Norfolk]: Direction Two, [1947].. Printed wrappers. Head and toe of spine chipped, small nicks and slight darkening at overlap edges. A good, internally fine copy. First edition, issued as whole number two of the New Directions serial, DIRECTION. JULIAR A25.1. ... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill, [1974].. Cloth. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Putnam, [1959].. Cloth and boards. First edition in English. Very good in dust jacket with a few nicks and closed tears. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown, [1967].. Narrow quarto. Spiralbound printed wrappers. Uncorrected proofs of the first edition. Staple in front wrapper, light dust soiling, but a nice copy. JULIAR B26.1. ... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill, [1969].. Cloth. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with faint scratch on front panel. ... more information

Paris: "Univers" A. Fayard et Cie., [1934].. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. A few light smudges to wrappers, some cracks toward crown of spine closed by an earlier owner, otherwise a very good, partially unopened copy. First edition in French of ZASHCHITA LUZHINA, translated by Denis Roche. This is the trade issue (there were also seventy-five copies on Lafuma). The first non-Russian language publication of this novel; it saw publication in English as THE DEFENSE in 1964. JULIAR D10.1. ... more information

New York: Putnam, [1966].. Cloth. First U.S. edition, revised and with a new Foreword. A few foxmarks to fore-edge, else about fine in very faintly dust smudged white dust jacket with purple background. ... more information

Norfolk: New Directions/Poets of the Year, [1944].. Plain wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. One corner faintly bumped, hint of typical tanning to spine fold, otherwise about fine. ... more information

Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [1944].. Plain wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. About fine in very good dust jacket with short tear at spine, tanning at edges and small smudges. ... more information

New York: New York University Press, 1971.. Cloth. First edition. About fine in a very good dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown, [1967].. Cloth. First edition. About fine in a dust jacket with a small closed tear to the top of the lower panel and a few snags to the toe of the spine. ... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill, [1972].. Gilt cloth. First edition. A fine copy in dust jacket with light wear to one corner. ... more information

[Culver City]: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/7 Arts, [1962].. 20pp. Folio. Pictorial self-wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Folded, lower corner bumped, else very good or better. The original campaign pressbook for promoting Kubrick's rendering of Nabokov's novel, captioned "How did they ever make a movie of LOLITA?" Includes several pages of text about the film, the controversy, and descriptions of promotional gimmicks: Lolita sunglasses, four different recordings of "Lolita Ya-Ya," and simi... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill, [1969].. Cloth. First edition. Top edge a bit sunned and dusty, but a nice, tight copy in lightly used dust jacket (just a shade too short for the book). ... more information

New York: Harcourt, [1983].. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Frontis, facsimiles. First edition. Edited by Fredson Bowers, Preface by Guy Davenport. Remainder stripe on bottom edge, but very good in lightly rubbed dust jacket with a long creased tear in the lower panel. ... more information

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark, [1984].. Gilt cloth and paper over boards. Introductions and translations by Dmitri Nabokov. First edition. Spine ends lightly bumped, a few shallow dents at lower edge of boards, two leaves with corner folds, else near very good in a good, somewhat characteristically edgeworn dust jacket with a couple of closed edge tears. ... more information