The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1963

The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov 

FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK EDITION [1963] POPULAR LIBRARY

2nd printing.

Book is in excellent condition.  Like new and unread w/  light wear to cover and some tanning to pages.   *1st page initialed neatly by orig. owner. 

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.  It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative:  the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like The Gift itself.