EDNote:
Very fishy indeed. I was under the impression that VN did no
gratuitous/celebrity signings of his works, only personal inscriptions
to friends and relatives. A personal copy of one book I have
seen--actually, the same book, I think--bears not a signature, but an
instruction (disobeyed!) to return it to V. Nabokov, Goldwin Smith
Hall, etc--probably in Vera's hand (I do not know how it came into my
acquaintance's possession).
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Am curious if folks think this is legitimate - I am NOT bidding on it
regardless - but I hate it when people attempt to pass off items as
signed
when they're not - the most notorious I found was a copy of Ulysses
being
auctioned on ebay allegedly with Joyce's signature "Go fry some liver"
or
some such thing. I emailed the seller to say that it was clearly not
Joyce's signature, but the item was still sold for the bargain price of
a
few hundred dollars. Ugh.