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Nabokov's Garden; a guide to ADA
by Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/near fine
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. Signed first edition of Nabokov's Garden by Bobbie Ann Mason.. Octavo, 196pp. Light beige cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First edition printed October 1974" on copyright page. Solid text block, light toning to spine, foxing to top edge, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $8.95 retail price on front flap, faint sunning to spine and edges, a near fine example. Signed by the author on the title page. 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 #
- 13639
- Title
- Nabokov's Garden; a guide to ADA
- Author
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition of Nabokov's Garden by Bobbie Ann Mason.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Ardis
- Place of Publication
- Ann Arbor
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
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