lithub.com/on-searching-for-nabokovs-rarest-paperbacks-across-america On Searching For Nabokov’s Rarest Paperbacks Across America
A Brooklyn bookstore refused to sell the author a Nabokov first novel she'd found in its dollar bin, calling it a rare collector edition. It came from Ardis, the Michigan press that Carl and Ellendea Proffer started in 1971 to publish Russian literature that wasn't meant to exist.
— via Literary Hub, Nina Chayka