King, Queen, Knave
by NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. "B" binding with smooth bottom edge of pages; translated by Dmitri Nabokov; foreword by the author; 272pp. A bit difficult to locate in this protected condition. 272 pp. Tight, clean copy!. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
Originally written in 1928, it was translated from Russian to English by Nabokov's son in 1968. The novel is the story of well-to-do Dreyer, who has a lovely but terriby cold wife, named Martha. Bored, manipulative Martha plots to make a lover of Dreyer's nephew, Franz, when he comes to work for Dreyer in Berlin.
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- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5000836
- Title
- King, Queen, Knave
- Author
- NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Fiction
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