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SIGNED IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. Pnin. 8vo, black cloth stamped in yellow and red, finger soiled, small line of dampstaining near bottom cover, thin line of white paint down center of front cover, ink-stamped numbers in top margin of title-page; first issue dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser, light overall rubbing and toning, dampstaining along spine panel into covers, visible mostly on verso, few short clean tears, vertical creases down spine panel. Garden City, 1957
first edition. signed by nabokov and dated may, 1957, the year of publication, in ink, on the front endpaper along with the number 326. The novel features his funniest and most heartrending character, Professor Timofey Pnin, a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré employed by an American college in the 1950s. The book, which was partly inspired by his own experiences teaching at Cornell, won Nabokov his first National Book Award nomination. Signed copies are quite scarce. Juliar A30.1.a.
