In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his final days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his prison cell.

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Year: 1966, First Great Britain Edition

Condition: Good/very good black hardcover in an acceptable dust jacket, chipped along the edges but not price clipped. (Please see photos)

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov HC/DJ 1st GB Edition, 1966