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Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions

Signed first edition of Martin Amis's Visiting Mrs Nabokov

Martin Amis
First edition. 8vo. Pp. 274. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; red endpapers. Dustjacket designed by Peter Dyer with an illustration by Paul Burgess.
Signed by Author to title-page.
A collection of book reviews, interviews, author profiles, and occasional pieces, originally published in the pages of The Observer, The Guardian, and sundry other publications. Encompassing the full gamut of contemporary politics and culture (high and low), he homes in on the razzamatazz of a Republican convention in New Orleans, Madonna's ferocious publicity machine, to the collection centrepiece of the dirty tricks behind the 1986 Karpov/Kasparov chess match. The title essay details a day spent in the company of Véra Nabokov, the widow of one of Amis's literary heroes, Vladimir Nabokov. "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the centre of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." –People
special feature
signed
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
Jonathan Cape
published in
London
publication year
1993
ISBN
0224038249
pagination
274 pages
width × height
​14.5 × ​22.5 cm
genre
essays
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
GBP£ ​85
EUR€ ​102
USD$ ​112
ref.7H4 3UY