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Ada. Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Nabokov, Vladimir

£40.00

1st Edition
Hardcover

First UK edition. Publisher’s red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Red top stain. In very good dust jacket with slight edgewear and one short closed tear to head of lower panel. *** A very attractive first UK edition of Nabokov’s sprawling novel about a love affair between a brother and sister. ‘A great work of art’ to Nabokov scholar Alfred Appel, a spurious mess to many others.

Book Details

AuthorNabokov, Vladimir
PublisherWeidenfeld and Nicolson
Publisher Year1969
Book ConditionNear Fine
Jacket ConditionNear Fine
Binding TypeHardcover
Edition1st Edition
LanguageEnglish