Ada by Vladimir Nabokov [1970 PAPERBACK] Fawcett Crest

Ada by Vladimir Nabokov

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1970] FAWCETT CREST

*Rare first fawcett crest printing w/ cool psychedelic cover art.

Nice reading copy.  Cover has creasing and a nick on rear. 

Reads nicely with tanning to pages; small water stain to text block that mildly affects a few margins mid-book [see last photo]

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat.