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A good reading copy only. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. Book of the Month Club Edition. -, Hard Cover, Good / Good.

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Hardbound, with the DJ, VG/GOOD+.

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Ex-library Book Gently Used Has Some Markings No Dust Jacket.

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A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Book of the Month Club Edition. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Missing Dust Jacket.

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A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Missing Dust Jacket.

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Soiled cover. DJ has 1 inch tear on front. Wear on DJ edges. Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear.

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Binding loose with pages attached. Text is clean with yellow pages. BCE. DJ shows some wear and tear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery!

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Binding loose with pages attached. Text is clean with tan pages. BCE. P/O name is on FFEP. DJ shows wear and tear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery!

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(512 pages) romance follows ada and van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture. (Paperback)

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No dust jacket. Ink name inside, light shelf wear. 626 pages. "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects: "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra. " In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February of 1966 to October of 1968. The published cumulation would become his longest work. Ada was initially given a mixed reception. Ada tells the life story of Van Veen, and his lifelong love affair with his sister Ada. They meet when she is eleven (soon to be twelve) and he is fifteen, believing that they are cousins (more precisely: that their fathers are cousins and that their mothers are sisters), and begin a sexual affair. They later discover that Van's father is also Ada's and her mother is also his. The story follows the various interruptions and resumptions of their affair. Both are wealthy, educated, and intelligent. Van goes on to become a world-renowned psychologist, and the book itself takes the form of his memoirs, written when he is in his nineties, punctuated with his own and Ada's marginal notes. The story takes place not on Earth but on a world called Antiterra, with a history that is different at various points. North America is mostly a part of Russia, for example, and electricity has been banned nearly since its discovery, so that airplanes and cars exist, but television and telephones (as we know them) do not. The setting is thus a complex mixture of Russia and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Furthermore, our Earth, the real world, is widely believed in as a sort of fringe religion or mass hallucination. Van's own specialty as a psychologist is with those people who believe that they are in contact with us. This alternate version of Earth possibly offers an explanation for the first line of the book, which is a deliberate misquoting of the famous first line of T

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Price on ffl. No names, no marks, no tears. Black cloth boards. Some bumping to spine ends and corners. Hinges strong and uncracked.; 5.75 by 8.5"; 626 pages.

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8vo 8"-9" tall.

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Name inside front cover. Missing DJ.

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Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1969. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Ed. Used, good. Cover has some rubbing. Cover has some edge wear. Text pages show modest aging/yellowing.

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Author's popular novel in a likely book club edition. In full black cloth covers, with bump at lower front edge. Interior clean & unmarked. DJ is chipped at edges & chafed at corners; has clipped front flap and is in removable mylar protector.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.

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Cool 1969 Mc-Graw Hill BCE Hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover! Dust jacket shows some wear and tear. ID number written on spine of dust jacket. No highlighting or underlining. Get a vintage copy of ADA and READ IT!

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Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture.

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Crease in spine, and spine ends slightly curled. Dust jacket has very slight wear.

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Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. On the country estate of his art-collecting uncle, Van Veen meets Ada, his beautiful cousin. Their relationship flourishes, but both were born into one of America's illustrious families, a vast over-extended empire, and this causes problems for the lovers. ISBN10: 0141181877.