New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1969. First Edition, First State. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth lettered in blind on the upper cover and in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 589 pp. A very fine copy of the book with just hint of age mellowing, the jacket very attractive and fresh with only a bit of very minor rubbing to the extremities from shelving. FIRST EDITION, the author's longest work and one noted scholar Alfred Appel called "an erotic masterpiece that explores the nature of time... a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and rapturous...[it] provides further evidence that [Nabokov] is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce." - New York Times Book Review, May, 1969.

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Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 32638
Title: ADA: or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Author: Nabokov Vladimir
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1969

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First State: used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
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