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Vladimir Nabokov. First edition thus, revised edition. New York: New Directions. First Edition, 1960. Both unclipped dust jacket (in a mylar wrapper) and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Dark blue cloth stamped in white at spine, in black dustwrapper lettered in blue and white, not price-clipped, 292 pp. A fairly common book in uncommon condition.
Original price of $3.50 still on front flap of jacket. First printing of the 1960 edition of Nabokov's first novel to be published in the US (originally published in 1938).
The author's first book published in the U.S., and the first appearance of own translation of the novel into English - the story of a blind man betrayed by his wife and her lover. Originally translated by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 under the title Camera Obscura. First published in the U.S. by Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1938.
