Search Results: Authors starting with N from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: Putnam, 1959. First English language edition. Gray patterned paper backed in red cloth, red top-stain. Mild extremity wear, small square of sticker residue to front endpaper, a very good copy, in a dust jacket, with shallow chipping along the top edge, and a long scratch on the front panel. Juliar A16.2.

San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1989. First edition. Uncorrected proof copy. Blue wrappers. Near fine.

New York: New York University Press, 1971. First edition. Orange cloth. Very good, in dust jacket.

New York: Putnam, 1986. First edition. Advance proof. A bright, fresh copy with only a small closed tear to the spine, nearly fine.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. First edition. First edition, variant "a" with "A25" on p. [44]. Blue cloth, faint spots on the endpapers, otherwise fine in dust jacket (spotted on the inside, but very attractive). Juliar A33.1.

Paris: Gallimard, 1939. First French language edition of Otchaianie [Despair], translated from Nabokov's first English translation by Marcel Stora. Original printed wrappers, fine, unopened. There were no special paper copies. This was the first of Nabokov's books to be translated into French from English instead of from Russian. It is now known that he collaborated on most of the French translations of his works, certainly approving and editing the texts. A specially bound copy of this translation was in his own library. Juliar D15.1.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959. New American edition in English. Blue-grey cloth, slight fading to edges, else fine, in slightly worn dust jacket. This edition contains the first printing of Conrad Brener's introduction. Brener had published an article about Nabokov in The New Republic, the previous year, that VN liked greatly. Juliar A21.3.

New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1964. First trade edition. Wrappers with flaps. Front flap clipped, otherwise a nearly fine copy. Juliar A36.2.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. First edition. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Black cloth, top edge stained purple. Fine, in fine dust jacket. Juliar A8.2.

New York: Vintage, 1997. Second Vintage International Editipon. Black-and-white pictorial wrappers. Fine, publisher's sticker on front cover. This important edition incorporates almost all corrections made to previous editions.

Lawrence. Kansas: Vladimir Nabokov Society. Original wrappers, hint of spine fading to some numbers, else fine. Issues 1-12 were titled "The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter". Issue no. 1 in photocopy; lacking issues 46-47, 50,55.

New York: Harper, 1979. First edition. Green printed wrappers, slight fading, else fine. Uncorrected proof copy. Juliar E49.1.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. First British edition. Black cloth, spine slanted, light spotting to top edge and endpapers, Rhodesian bookseller label to front endpaper, else a very good copy. Dust jacket worn and chipped to extremities, tear to front panel, price-clipped, good. Juliar A16.3.

London: Heinemann, 1959. First British edition. Blue cloth. Fine, in a nearly fine dust jacket lightly worn to extremities. Juliar A32.2.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. First edition. Proof copy of the first edition. Mustard-colored printed wrappers, spine slightly faded but an excellent copy of this scarce, bulky, and fragile item, not likely to survive beyond a single reading. Juliar describes two copies, the second identical to the first, only lacking the preliminary page which surely fell out. Juliar E40.1.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First edition. Uncorrected proof copy. Wrappers, stapled, spine black tape on backstrip as issued, 8 1/2 inches x 10 3/4 inches, slight fading, one insert page in photocopy with ink note. Pencilled publication information on wrapper, reviewer's note in ink. Juliar E42.1.

New York: Jerry Sherlock Productions, 1979. Photocopied playscript, brad fastened into William Morris Agency covers. Fine condition. With copies of the Offering Circular, (13 pp.) dated October 14, 1980, and the Limited Partnership Agreement (20 pp.) for the company formed to produce the play, in envelope as sent by Gary Lucchesi at William Morris Agency.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. First wrappers edition. Red wrappers, fine, with review slip and press release. Juliar A43.3.

New York: Putnam, 1966. Revised ed. Black cloth, light glue stain to front endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good dust jacket. Juliar A26.5.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. First edition. Uncorrected page proofs. Printed wrappers without cover sticker, damp stain on bottom of cover and first few leaves. Prtess release inserted. Not recorded by Juliar.