Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius Tapa dura - 1999

Zoland Books, 10/1/2000 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Good. 1.3000 9.1000 6.0000.

Brand: Zoland Books, 2000-10-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Zoland Books, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The dust jacket is protected by a clear plastic cover. Pages are clean, tight and bright. The dust jacket's original price is still present..

Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Third Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 372 pages. Contains a Glossary of Binomial and Common Nabokovian Butterfly Names; Nabokov's Scientific Publicationson Blue Butterlies; Principal Academic PublicationsCompleting Nabokov's Work on Neotropical Blues; a General Bibliogtaphy and an Index. Illustrated with black and white images of maps, diagrams and photographs. First edition, third printing. "One of the last of the gentleman-naturalists, Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian-American author of Lolita and other enduring works of fiction, had no formal training in biology, but during the 1940s was an acknowledged expert on blues, a diverse group of butterflies inhabiting some of the remotest parts of Latin America." This work explores that portion of his life and its influence on his later fiction and beyond. No previous ownership marks. A clean,… Leer más

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Zoland Books, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Page edges a little dusty..

Cambridge: Zoland, 1999. first edition as stated. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. 6 x 9 in. Paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers like new, upper text edge foxed. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD+ ; clean, minimal wear. Lit. Stax.

mint hc, filed with Nabokov

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Zoland Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine./Fine.. First printing. Includes section of photographs; Index; Bibliography; glossary of Nabokovian Butterfly Names.

Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1999 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. xii, 372 pp, preface and acknowledgments, Part I. The Aurelian; Part II. The Searchers; Part III. Nabokov's Blues; afterword, a glossary of binomial and commonNabokovian butterfly names, Nabokov's scientific publications on Blue butterflies, principal academic publications completing Nabokos's work on neotropical Blues, general bibliography. index with b&w illustrations. First Edition, 2000. "Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) had no formal training in biology, but during the 1940s he was an acknowledged expert on "Blues," a family of butterflies that inhabit some of the remotest parts of Latin and South America. In 1945 he published a radical new classification of Blues, a paper that initially caused a stir in the rarified field of lepidoptery. However, it was fifty years before scientists followed up on his pioneering work. Part biography and part detective… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.