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EDNOTE. Some years back Paul Maliszevwki did an article on VN paperback book
covers for McSweeneys (Issue 4).
It is remarkable, and accompanied with some illustrations of truly bad
Lo's (the best is a striking but significantly postpubescent blonde
(!) sucking on the ubiquitous lollipop, in an Italian edition), along with
a few very graceful ones, and also some very charming Pnins. The magazine
itself is terrific and very funny, and ordering information can be found
at http://www.mcsweeneys.net/subscribe/)
an exellent, handsomely illusrtared article
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> Greetings
> I understand that VN had some qualms about the publishers' first draft for
> the cover illustration of Pnin, and that it was changed. Does any body
have
> a scan of the eventual out come. I have an old copy myself (paperback)
with
> a guy at a desk with a cloud of some sort around his head. Also, did VN
have
> any say in the covers of any of his other books? I notice that most of the
> post Lolita hardcovers are extremely drab ( I'm thinking specifically of
> Glory, Ada, Mary, and LATH!).On the other hand the Ben Sinister of the
> Tim-Life series (1962, maybe?) is very cool. And what about the current
> Vintage editions, who gives the okay for them (DN?).
> Dane Gill
>
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covers for McSweeneys (Issue 4).
It is remarkable, and accompanied with some illustrations of truly bad
Lo's (the best is a striking but significantly postpubescent blonde
(!) sucking on the ubiquitous lollipop, in an Italian edition), along with
a few very graceful ones, and also some very charming Pnins. The magazine
itself is terrific and very funny, and ordering information can be found
at http://www.mcsweeneys.net/subscribe/)
an exellent, handsomely illusrtared article
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (16
lines) ------------------
> Greetings
> I understand that VN had some qualms about the publishers' first draft for
> the cover illustration of Pnin, and that it was changed. Does any body
have
> a scan of the eventual out come. I have an old copy myself (paperback)
with
> a guy at a desk with a cloud of some sort around his head. Also, did VN
have
> any say in the covers of any of his other books? I notice that most of the
> post Lolita hardcovers are extremely drab ( I'm thinking specifically of
> Glory, Ada, Mary, and LATH!).On the other hand the Ben Sinister of the
> Tim-Life series (1962, maybe?) is very cool. And what about the current
> Vintage editions, who gives the okay for them (DN?).
> Dane Gill
>
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