Laughter in the Dark

RARE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATED EDITION OF NABOKOV'S CLASSIC.

First US Edition. New York: New Directions. (1960). 8vo. Original blue publisher's cloth hardcover in original unclipped dust jacket. Lettering to spine in white. Pages: 292.

Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket unclipped, rubbing along edges and extremities with some loss along upper edge at creases. Some markings scattered across jacket near creases. Colour rubbing from bindings onto inner jacket near bottom spine edge. Binding in very good condition, square and tight. Some age toning along edges. Some markings on rear outer board face. Contents excellent, very minor foxing on some pages near edges and along edges.

Contains Nabokov's "fixed" English translation. Jacket design by Griselda Ohannessian and Charles Kaplan.

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