Transparent Things

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1972).

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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a slightly chipped, about very good dustwrapper, housed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Warmly Inscribed by the author to Gordon Lish, who published some of Nabokov's stories when he was the fiction editor at *Esquire*: "for Gordon Lish from Vladimer Nabokov. I sold this for a song, A Russian Beauty's last price is a ditty (Alaskan slang for 1500 dollars). Jan. 1973. Montreux."

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Item #346455 Transparent Things. Vladimir NABOKOV.
Transparent Things
Transparent Things
Transparent Things

Vladimir Nabokov
birth name: Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov
born: 4/22/1899
died: 7/2/1977
nationality: Russia-USSA

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Russian-born American novelist and critric. He wrote in both Russian and English and his best works, including Lolita (1955), feature intricate, stylish literary effects. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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