NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). La Méprise. [Despair.] Paris: Gallimard, 1939. PRESENTATION COPY. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.
8vo (190 x 119 mm). Publisher's advertising leaflet laid in. Original printed wrappers; original glassine. REVIEW COPY OF THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION, imprinted "S.P." (service presse) on the title-page and lower wrapper. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY NABOKOV: " Jean Fayard avec sympathie sincre. V. Nabokoff." French novelist Jean Fayard was a member of the Fayard publishing family, whose imprint issued La Course du Fou in 1933, the first French translation of any of Nabokov's works. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. Juliar D15.1.
Property from the Vladimir Nabokov Collection of J. Rigbie Turner
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