The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1964 SCIENCE_TAG breaking free from the psycho

breaking free from the psycho ward

But these friends shared something that Melanie did not know

to what we always feared was behind it

The Mountains of California

and murder

The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1964 SCIENCE_TAG breaking free from the psychoThe Defense by Vladimir Nabokov FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING [1964] G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Hardcover sans dust jacket. Book itself is in beautiful condition. Some light shelf wear to cover and very subtle tanning to pages, mostly to outer edges. A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a refuge from everyday life. As he rises to the heights of grandmaster, the game of chess gradually supplants the