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Publisher: Putnam, New York, 1962. FINE- hardcover book in FINE- mylar-protected, price-clipped dust-jacket. Red top stain has faded to pink, otherwise as new. First US Edition, First Impression (stated). Beautiful copy of Nabokov's masterpiece.

Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled 'Pale Fire', written by the fictional poet John Shade, with a foreword, lengthy commentary and index by Shade's neighbor and academic colleague, Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both fictional authors are central characters. The novel has been hailed as one of Nabokov's most complex and rewarding works and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.