Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001377, Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:07:12 -0700

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sale of Nabokov collection
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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:56:15 -0500
From: Gennady Barabtarlo <gragb@showme.missouri.edu>
To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU

Here is the remainder of the Aldwinckle VN library that was unsold on the
first round. SOme books were added, notably paperbacks at the end. The
prices have been cut by 10 to 20 per cent. Kindly address all the inquiries
to me directly.


# Title Juliar Code Condition Price

1. King-Queen-Knave 1st 9.2 exc 63
2. "" no d/j 45
3. The Eye 1st 12.2 exc 108
4. Invitation to a Beheading 1st 16.2 exc 160
5. " (Russian Ed. Victor 16.7 vg 80

7. The Waltz Invention 1st 19.1 exc 90
8. Real Life of SK 1st Brit. 21.2 no d/j 50

10. Nikolay Gogol, 1st ed., 22.1 (a) mint 252

12. Bend Sinister, 1st 24.1 no d/j 54
13. Same, 1st Time-Life ed. 24.4 exc. 9

15. Drugie Berega 1st 26.3 vg 60
16. Lolita 1st Olympia, 1st Print. 28.1 exc. 1500
17. ' " 1st Russian Phaedra 28.7 a & b (soft and hardbound)

mint. 50+70

18. Pale Fire 1st 35.1 exc. 150
19. Same, diff. d/j ? exc. 50
21. Eugene Onegin Revised ed. 37.4 mint 170

22. Quartet 1st 38.1 exc. 120
23. Ada 1st 40.1 exc. 80


26. Lectures on Ulysses 52.1 [480 numbered copies printed, don;t
know Bob's #] "new" in wax-paper's wrapper 290
27. COllected Works, Russian-Ardis (unfinished, hardbound)
KQK, Dar, Sogliadatai at $20
28. The Anchor review (1st Amer.public. of Lolita) exc. 50
29. 5 bound vls. of ATlantic, 1943-45, with VN's stories 60

Books on VN:

31. Field, Life in Art (dj) 22
32. Ditto, in Part (dj) 18

34. COllection of articles by Appel (1970) 25
35. COllection by Dembo 22

38. Long "Marvell and VN" 16
39. Rampton, VN 18

41. KArges, VN's Lepidoptera 9
42. English-Russian Dictionary of Lolita 9
43. Achievements of VN (COrnell) 23

48. Laugther in the Dark, 14.5 , exc. $45
49. " " (softbound), 14.9 , exc. $18
50. Ada, 1st ed., 4th printing (NOT Book-of the Month) exc. $35 (1st print.
$70)
51. King QUeen Knave, 1st AM. in Russian 9.5 exc. $132

52. Mary 1st ed. in English 8.2 exc. $65
53. Mary 1st Am. ed. in Russian (500 copies), hardbound, 8.6 exc. $210
54. Glory, 1st ed. 2nd print. (NOT Book OTM),13.2 exc. $70
55. Podvig, 1st Am ed. in Russian, 500 copies, 13.6 exc. $200
56. A sl. less perfect copy of The Anchor Review (1st Am publ. of Lol) $30

59 ALmanac VOzdushnye Puti, Aerial Paths, II and V (with VN's verse), @15
60 Look at the Harlequins, 1st exc. $45

Paperbacks (most appear to be "first editions" in their class, but often
it's hard to say)


>3. The Defense (Capricorn) 1970 $10

>5. Lolita, Crest Giant, 1959 $30
>6. PAle Fire, Lancer, 1963 $25
>7. Transparent Things, Fawcett 1972 $20
>8. Ada, Fawcett 1971 $15


9. N's Dozen, 1958 NY $20

b. The Gift, Panther, London 1963 (with cover drawing by Dmitri N.) $35

c. Mary 1970 Fawcett $15


e. The Eye(Pocket, 1966) $20

f. Lolita, Corgi, London 1962 $25

g. Despair 1970 Capricorn $20

h. KQK Fawcett 1969 $15

i. Invitation to a Beheading <?> Perigee $12

j. Bend SInister, Time-Life 1964 $10

d. Pnin, Atheneum 1965 $10



Gene Barabtarlo
Professor of Russian,
Chairman of the Department
of German and Russian Studies
451 GCB University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

(573)882-9454; facs (573) 884=8456