An edition of Pale fire: a novel (1962)

Pale fire

a novel

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Pale fire
Vladimir Nabokov
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An edition of Pale fire: a novel (1962)

Pale fire

a novel

  • 4.00 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 82 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

Publish Date
Publisher
Arion Press
Language
English
Pages
284

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Previews available in: English Russian

Edition Availability
Cover of: Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
August 31, 2000, Penguin Books
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire: a novel
1994, Arion Press
in English
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire
1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire: a novel
1989, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage international ed.
Cover of: Blednyĭ ogonʹ
Blednyĭ ogonʹ
1983, Ardis
in Russian
Cover of: Pale Fire
Pale Fire
November 15, 1977, Berkley
in English
Cover of: Pale Fire
Pale Fire
1975, Berkley Books
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire
1972, Berkley Pub.
in English - New ed.
Cover of: Pale fire
Pale fire
1968, Berkley Books
in English - Berkley Medallion ed.
Cover of: Pale fire

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Edition Notes

Accompanied by a separate printing of the poem excerpted from the novel. (80 p. ; 11 x 16 cm.)

"Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."--T.p. verso.

"Pale fire is the forty-third publication of the Arion Press. The book was designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Glenn Todd, Gerald Reddan, Lawrence G. Van Velzer, Peggy Gotthold, Leif Erlandsson, Barbara Scarpellino, and Stephanie Dal Porto. The type is Fridericus, composed in Monotype by M & H Type, San Francisco. The paper is Somerset, an English mould-made sheet. The novel is accompanied by an extra copy of the poem printed in the same manner but in a small oblong format. The two-volume edition, limited to 200 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies hors de commerce, has been completed in the spring of 1994"--Colophon.

Library has copy no. 114.

Issued in a slipcase.

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284 p. :
Number of pages
284

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OL22948866M

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