NABOKOV, Vladimir

Invitation to a Beheading

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960 (first English edition)/ 1935.

Octavo, 208 pages.

Black papered boards lettered in silver on the spine; top edge dyed red; boards slightly bowed; edges slightly marked; contemporary ink ownership details on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the very good unclipped dustwrapper (a little rubbed, torn and chipped with slight loss, with a small tapestain on the verso at the foot of the spine).

'Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author'; the three-page foreword by the author is new to this edition.

Item #141833

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