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Hardcover in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 372 pages. Contains a Glossary of Binomial and Common Nabokovian Butterfly Names; Nabokov’s Scientific Publicationson Blue Butterlies; Principal Academic PublicationsCompleting Nabokov’s Work on Neotropical Blues; a General Bibliogtaphy and an Index. Illustrated with black and white images of maps, diagrams and photographs. First edition, third printing. “One of the last of the gentleman-naturalists, Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian-American author of Lolita and other enduring works of fiction, had no formal training in biology, but during the 1940s was an acknowledged expert on blues, a diverse group of butterflies inhabiting some of the remotest parts of Latin America.” This work explores that portion of his life and its influence on his later fiction and beyond. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.