a novel, first English edition of the author's first work translated into English, 16pp. advertisements, closed tear to fore-edge margin of one f., original cloth, slight shelf lean, 8vo, John Long, [1936]. A rare book as most copies were apparently destroyed in a warehouse fire. The translation by Winifred Roy did not satisfy Nabokov but he agreed to its publication due to the need to secure publication and possibly copyright in the UK. He subsequently published his own translation for the American market in 1938, under the title Laughter in the Dark .