Birthday Books of the Day: two 1st eds by the author of Lolita

Today is the birthday of the Russian-American author, Vladimir Nabokov (1899). Henry Bemis celebrates with an offer of first editions of two less-well-known books by the author of Lolita:

Nabokov, Vladimir, Glory (McGraw Hill, 1st ed., 1971). ISBN 07-045733-6. First published in Russian in 1932, Nabokov and his son, Dmitri, translated it into English for this edition. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price $50 obo.

Nabokov, Vladimir, Quartet (Phaedra Publications, 1st ed., August 15, 1966).  LOC 66-28101. In a long, January 1966 review in The New Republic, John Appel, Jr. noted, "Now in his sixty-seventh year, Vladimir Nabokov is suddenly upon us. Of course, he was here all along, but his oeuvre was like an iceberg, the massive body of his Russian novels, stories, plays, and poems remaining untranslated and out of sight, lurking beneath the visible peaks of Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962). In the last eight years, however, six of his books in Russian have been translated and three out of print novels reissued. Nabokov's own translation of Lolita into Russian and a collation of stories known as Nabokov's Quartet appeared quietly this autumn…” 

These four stories, two published in the U.S. for the first time, show the master in top form. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, white end papers, boards covered in a rough printed cloth pattern with the author’s signature on the lower right front cover. 8.75” x 5.5”, 104 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $100 obo.

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