2 volumes. (4to) 28x17 cm (10¾x7"), and small separate additional printing of the poem: oblong, 11x15 cm (4x6"), both in iridescent purple cloth, golden circle cloth cover label lettered in gilt, housed together in publisher’s golden cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered purple cloth spine label. Designed and printed under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. Copy B of 26 lettered copies from a total edition of 226. The forty-third publication of Arion Press. "Brian Boyd, a biographer of Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), wrote: 'In sheer beauty of form, Pale Fire may well be the most perfect novel ever written.' It is a satire of academic writing and has two ostensible authors, both college professors: one an older poet, the other his somewhat younger and mentally disturbed colleague of mysterious European origins, who is presented the hitherto unpublished magnum opus of his late friend, a poem of 999 lines entitled 'Pale Fire'...The crackpot professor suggests that readers purchase two copies of the book in order to have the poem open for ready reference to his explications in the commentary. This we provided in a second volume of the poem alone, printed on pages that resemble the index cards with ruled lines used by the poet (and Nabokov) while composing the poem." - Bibliography of the Arion Press, p. 133.
2 volumes. (4to) 28x17 cm (10¾x7"), and small separate additional printing of the poem: oblong, 11x15 cm (4x6"), both in iridescent purple cloth, golden circle cloth cover label lettered in gilt, housed together in publisher’s golden cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered purple cloth spine label. Designed and printed under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. Copy B of 26 lettered copies from a total edition of 226. The forty-third publication of Arion Press. "Brian Boyd, a biographer of Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), wrote: 'In sheer beauty of form, Pale Fire may well be the most perfect novel ever written.' It is a satire of academic writing and has two ostensible authors, both college professors: one an older poet, the other his somewhat younger and mentally disturbed colleague of mysterious European origins, who is presented the hitherto unpublished magnum opus of his late friend, a poem of 999 lines entitled 'Pale Fire'...The crackpot professor suggests that readers purchase two copies of the book in order to have the poem open for ready reference to his explications in the commentary. This we provided in a second volume of the poem alone, printed on pages that resemble the index cards with ruled lines used by the poet (and Nabokov) while composing the poem." - Bibliography of the Arion Press, p. 133.
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