Description
FIRST SWEDISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 265, [1]. Original yellow wrappers printed in black and red. Spine a little creased. Nabokov identified in ink to title-page.
Han Som Spelade Schack Med Livet. Med inledning av Anders Österling. Översättning Från Ryskan av Ellen Rydelius.
- Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag 1936
- Juliar D10.2.
£95
Notes
An attractive copy of the Swedish translation of Nabokov's third novel, first published in Russian in 1930 as Защита Лужина, in Berlin, and translated into English as 'The Defense' in 1964. This Swedish edition was preceded by a French translation in 1933 and was revised and reprinted in 1966.
