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King, Queen, Knave
by Vladimir Nabokov
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover first American edition, published by McGraw-Hill, 1968. Originally published in 1928, this is the 1968 English translation. The story of the marriage of Martha and Kurt Dreyer, and Martha's plans to murder Kurt. Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page, along with the code 45715 printed on the same line. The dust jacket is intact, though it has been price clipped on the front flap. Bottom text edge is smooth. This copy is somewhat confusing as the back flap of the jacket has 'Book-Of-The Month' printed on the top edge. However, there are no additional points to indicate that this is a club edition, for example there is no blind stamp mark on the back cover board. The bottom edge of the text block being smooth, (instead of rough which would indicate a first edition - first printing), is a point that this is a first edition - second state. Difficult to be absolutely certain without the key point of the printed price on the front flap. Slate gray cloth covered boards, with black cloth covered spine. Title and author name in gold on the spine. '45715' code is printed on the bottom corner of the back cover board. Jacket has a 1-1/2" tear at the back left bottom corner. Creases and a small shallow chip at the head of the spine panel. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Very mild bumping to the bottom corners of the cover boards. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Orange-red colored heavy weight paste-down and end papers. Rough edges to the fore edge of the text block. Orange-red top-stain has faded. Binding is tight and square. This is not a library discard copy, not a remainder. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23-05403
- Title
- King, Queen, Knave
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McGraw Hill
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature in Translation;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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