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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.
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Pale fire: a novel
1989, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage international ed.
0679723420 9780679723424
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San Francisco
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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