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Nabokov's Garden; a guide to ADA
by Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
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About This Item
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback original. Near fine. Signed paperback issue of Nabokov's Garden by Bobbie Ann Mason.. Octavo, 196pp. Yellow paperback, $3.25 retail price on rear cover. Solid text block, light wear to joints, shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes laid-in card from publisher stating only one printing occurred, with paperback and cloth editions released at the same time. An incredibly scarce example. Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940) is a novelist, literary critic, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her first novel, In Country, was adapted into a film starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd in 1989. Nabokov's Garden predates all her other works, and is the published version of her doctoral dissertation in literature, awarded from the University of Connecticut.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13640
- Title
- Nabokov's Garden; a guide to ADA
- Author
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Illustrator
- Signed paperback issue of Nabokov's Garden by Bobbie Ann Mason.
- Format/Binding
- Paperback original
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Ardis
- Place of Publication
- Ann Arbor
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Bobbie Ann Mason, Bobbie Ann Mason first edition, Bobbie Ann Mason signed, Nabokov's Garden first edition, Nabokov's Garden signed, In Country Bobbie Ann Mason, In Country Mason signed, With Jazz Mason, With Jazz Bobbie Ann Mason, Nabokov's Garden A
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