Description
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 8vo, pp. 292. Original green cloth, spine blocked in gilt and lettered direct in gilt on a black ground. Somewhat rubbed to edges.
Laughter in The Dark.
- Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1938
- Juliar A14.2a.
£120
Notes
Nabokov's first publication in the United States and the first of his translations of his own work. The novel was first published in English two years prior, translated by Winifred Roy for John Long in the UK under the title Camera Obscura (echoing the original Russian title Ка́мера обску́ра); it was Nabokov's dissatisfaction with that translation which spurred his own effort, revising and retitling the text in the process. Juliar records three binding variants, of which this green takes precedence.
