Lot 419
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Nabokov, Vladimir. [Nabokoff-Sirin, Vladimir]
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Camera Obscura. London: John Long, [1936]. First edition in English, 8vo, original black cloth, spine a bit dulled
Footnote
Note: Rare. Julian located only 7 copies (5 of which were institutional) at the time of his bibliography and while more have surfaced in the interim, only two are known in a dust-jacket.. It seems that this book suffered the same fate as his other effort for publisher John Long's edition of Nabokov's Despair (1937) also sold poorly before most of the remaining stock was destroyed in wartime bombing. Nabokov was unhappy with Winifred Roy's translation and never allowed it to be reprinted. His own translation appeared in the U.S.A. in 1938 as Laughter in the Dark. Julian D14.