Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)
Pale Fire, Limited Edition.

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1994.

Limited edition, two volumes, folio, with the poem printed separately in a smaller format; copy "B" of 26 lettered copies hors de commerce, from a total of 226 (of which 200 were offered for sale); both volumes bound in lovely, iridescent purple moire cloth, front panels inset with a disc of gray moire cloth gilt stamped, spines lettered in gilt; contained in the original gold moire cloth slipcase with the purple silk spine label (slipcase corners lightly bumped); large format: 10 7/8 x 7 in.; small format: 4 x 6 in.