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Re: query Vera dedications (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Sarah Funke is the organizer and cataloguer for New York
City Glen Horowitz (Bookseller, Inc.) who is having an April exhibition
of "Books from the library of Vladimir Nabkov annotated and inscribed to
his wife." The forthcoming catalogue is entitled VERA's BUTTERFLIES.
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From: SarahFunke@aol.com
Last year I had occasion to compile a list of books in Juliar that are
dedicated to Vera. Please post this only if you think it is useful. Cheers,
SarahFunke@AOL.com
The following books are the only English and Russian editions written in VN's
lifetime that are dedicated to Vera:
Mashen'ka (1926)
Mary (1970)
Korol', dama, valet (McGraw-Hill's 1968 edition of the Russian text)
The Defense (1964)
The Eye (1965)
Glory (1971)
Despair (1966)
The Gift (1963)
The Waltz Invention (1966)
Conclusive Evidence (1951)
Drugie berega (1954)
Speak, Memory (1967)
Lolita (1967 Russian translation)
Annotated Lolita (1970, unable to check--assume not?)
Pale Fire (1962)
Eugene Onegin (1964, 1975)
Nabokov's Quartet (1966)
Ada (1969)
Poems and Problems (1971)
Transparent Things (1972)
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973)
Strong Opinions (1973)
Lolita: A Screenplay (1974)
Look at the Harlequins! (1974)
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1975)
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976)
City Glen Horowitz (Bookseller, Inc.) who is having an April exhibition
of "Books from the library of Vladimir Nabkov annotated and inscribed to
his wife." The forthcoming catalogue is entitled VERA's BUTTERFLIES.
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From: SarahFunke@aol.com
Last year I had occasion to compile a list of books in Juliar that are
dedicated to Vera. Please post this only if you think it is useful. Cheers,
SarahFunke@AOL.com
The following books are the only English and Russian editions written in VN's
lifetime that are dedicated to Vera:
Mashen'ka (1926)
Mary (1970)
Korol', dama, valet (McGraw-Hill's 1968 edition of the Russian text)
The Defense (1964)
The Eye (1965)
Glory (1971)
Despair (1966)
The Gift (1963)
The Waltz Invention (1966)
Conclusive Evidence (1951)
Drugie berega (1954)
Speak, Memory (1967)
Lolita (1967 Russian translation)
Annotated Lolita (1970, unable to check--assume not?)
Pale Fire (1962)
Eugene Onegin (1964, 1975)
Nabokov's Quartet (1966)
Ada (1969)
Poems and Problems (1971)
Transparent Things (1972)
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973)
Strong Opinions (1973)
Lolita: A Screenplay (1974)
Look at the Harlequins! (1974)
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1975)
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976)