Starts 11th Feb, 2026 18:00
Ending 25th Feb, 2026 19:30
Fine and Rare Books and Works on Paper
Nabokov, Vladimir. 1957 PNIN - signed first edition in Richard Tong craft binding
Nabokov, Vladimir. 1957 PNIN. New York: Doubleday and Company Inc. Signed and dated Nabokov to front blank, dated Oct 30 1959 London; with '57 gift inscription above signature. Bound in cream full contemporary craft leather by Richard Tong, with coloured letters emulating the original dust wrapper design. Top edge gilt. Light toning to leaves throughout and a few spots to the fore edge. Housed in red goatskin solander box, white lettering to spine. A beautiful and respendently bound signed example; Nabokov signatures are uncommon. 8vo. (1)
Nabokov, Vladimir. 1957 PNIN. New York: Doubleday and Company Inc. Signed and dated Nabokov to front blank, dated Oct 30 1959 London; with '57 gift inscription above signature. Bound in cream full contemporary craft leather by Richard Tong, with coloured letters emulating the original dust wrapper design. Top edge gilt. Light toning to leaves throughout and a few spots to the fore edge. Housed in red goatskin solander box, white lettering to spine. A beautiful and respendently bound signed example; Nabokov signatures are uncommon. 8vo. (1)
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