Speak Memory an Autobiography Revisited by Nabokov Vladimir, First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First Printing (stated), 1996. The subscribers edition with no dust jacket as issued. A fine copy bound in green cloth in a fine slipcase.

Condition: New. 2000. 01st Edition. Paperback. An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 2ADT; 3JH; 3JJ; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Library of America number 87. Stated first printing. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark. About fine in like dust jacket.

Paperback. First Edition Thus (1979), so stated. First Edition Thus (1979), so stated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities and the front panel wants to curl at the outside edge just slightly; the mildest rubbing to the panels; a bit of foxing to the fore-edge; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the covers. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaws. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.25 x 0.85 inches). 316 pages. Sparsely illustrated with vintage duotone photographs and drawings in black & white. Language: English. Weight: 12.4 ounces. Based on the revised edition of 1966. Trade Paperback. Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as "Conclusive Evidence" and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Luhzin Defense. One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. "When he is writing about someone or something he loves , he is irresistible; when he is writing about someone or something he despises, he can manage to enlist one's sympathies, if only momentarily, for the object of his contempt.".

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First paperback edition. 236pp. Binding slightly cocked, creases on the spine, near fine.

Everyman's Library. 1999. First edition thus. Hardback in DW. A very clean copy in wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. Schutzumschlag. Erste Ausgabe. 316 S. Orig.-Leinenband mit Schutzumschlag. Nabokov hat seine Autobiographie "Conclusive Evidence" (1951) hier einer vollständigen Revision unterzogen. Der Umschlag mit teilweise hinterlegten Randeinrissen, sonst gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition,states 'Book-Of-The-Month Club Selection' top right corner of front flap.D/W shelf-worn,tears top/tail of spine and along top/bottom edges,some marks,else good.Book black boards,gilt lettering to spine,rough-cut page edges lightly tanned,'drawing of a Butterfly & a 'Sketch Map of the Nabokov Lands on the St.Petersburg Region' to endpapers,contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Good copy. 1967 Revisited Edition.