Vladimir Nabokov; Michael Glenny [trans.] — Mary

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first edition English translation of this Nabokov novel, initially published in the Russian language under a pen name in 1926. The first English language, UK edition, of Nabokov's debut novel, initially published in Russian under the name V. Sirin, in 1926. In the publisher's original price unclipped dustwrapper.Well received in the 1920s for its depiction of pre-Revolutionary Russia, the work has a tendency to be viewed by recent critics as relatively juvenile in style. It was the final of his Russian novels to be translated into English, in a collaboration between Nabokov and Michael Glenny, a lecturer in Russian literary studies at Bristol University.In 'Mary', Nabokov explores the metaphysical ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson, alongside themes of time, memory and consciousness.This is an ex-library volume, with the bookplate of the Essex County Library to the rear pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dustwrapper. Externally bright, but with marks to the tail of the rear board. Tape residue to the rear pastedown, alongside a library bookplate. Residue of another bookplate to the rear free endpaper. Sunning to dustwrapper spine. Internally, firmly bound. Library markings to title page. Pages bright and clean, with only occasional mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good Indeed.