DETAILS OF A SUNSET: And Other Stories.

First UK edition, first printing. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper (with a different colour scheme to the US edition). A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt sharp, the contents clean throughout. In the bright and clean dustwrapper, fine except for a short closed tear (c. 8 mm) to the lower edge of the front panel. Not price-clipped (£4.50 net to the front flap). A lovely copy of the uncommon first UK edition.

In his foreword, Nabokov notes that 'Details of a Sunset' is "the last batch of my Russian stories meriting to be Englished. They cover a period of eleven years (1924-1935); all of them appeared in the émigré dailies and magazines of the time, in Berlin, Riga, and Paris." The remainder of the foreword provides a checklist of all the author's translated Russian stories including the dates of original versions and the four volumes in which the English versions can be found.