Glory – Vladimir Nabokov
NF/NF Book Club

For sale: a rare first Book Club edition of Glory by Vladimir Nabokov. Book Club Edition (BOMC) unstated, 1968 McGraw-Hill. Same size and design as first printing. The only sign of being a BOMC is a small dimple on the rear board and the missing price.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean bright boards, strong title gilt on a convex spine, a few spots on page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition without marks, inscriptions, or  other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.

The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface wear, heavy edge wear and no price on the front flap. Looks great in a new  archival wrap.

The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one’s chest, or in the casual vision of Martin’s mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at, even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists and a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale, although nothing much happens at the very end – just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day’ – Vladimir Nabokov