New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this volume: forty-seven distinguished stories that have appeared in The New Yorker since 1950. The list of contributors- printed in full on the back of the jacket- reads like an honor roll of the decade's most accomplished and adventurous writers. Their stories demonstrate again how The New Yorker, year in, year out, enriches our literature, continually bringing to..... More

New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. “History seemed to pursue Vladimir Nabokov. In the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Second World War he lost his homeland, social position, and family, and was even forced to abandon working in his own language. By the time Lolita was published in 1955, Nabokov, by then an American citizen, caused a sensation and established his reputation as a strikingly original..... More

Paris, France: La Table Ronde, 1953. First French Edition. Softcover. A critical-biographical study of the great Russian writer Nikolai (Vasilyevich) Gogol (1809-1852) by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the canonical Russian-American author whose exquisitely intricate works are being enshrined in the Library of America series. First published in English in the USA during 1944, here we offer the first French-language edition of 1953, translated from English into French by Marcelle Sibon. Softcover..... More