NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Laughter in the Dark. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938.
8o. Original green cloth; dust jacket (light staining to lower panel, very minor chipping to ends of folds, light creasing to lower margin of upper panel).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Nabokov's own translation of his first book to be published in the United States. The work appeared first in London in 1936 as Camera Obscura, in the translation of Winifred Roy. Nabokov was unhappy with that translation and never allowed it to be reprinted. Juliar A142.
NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Laughter in the Dark. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938.
8o. Original green cloth; dust jacket (light staining to lower panel, very minor chipping to ends of folds, light creasing to lower margin of upper panel).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Nabokov's own translation of his first book to be published in the United States. The work appeared first in London in 1936 as Camera Obscura, in the translation of Winifred Roy. Nabokov was unhappy with that translation and never allowed it to be reprinted. Juliar A142.
