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Don Johnson sent Nabokovs manuscripts sold at auction in London. Did I
miss the name of the institutions or people who acquired them, or are these
to remain anonimous? I was surprised in that the news caused me a special
discomfort, as if Id been cheated of something that I ignored, words
getting loose like suddenly hatched butterflies I surmised were pinned down
and tagged for all eternity.
Recently I bought the Brazilian edition of Agatha Christies secret
notebooks, fifty years of mysteries in the making, by John Curran ( 2009),
with the inclusion of two still-unpublished stories with Poirot. I havent
yet read it. The edition is not sophisticated, but there are reproductions
of manuscript pages and diagrams. In his introduction, Curran describes
Agatha Christies residence in Greenway and how he kept recognizing in the
casual objects on his way, a turn of a staircase, a vase, items which had
been key elements in Christies various detective novels. His enthusiastic
and extensive knowledge and love for Christies work is catching (and
fetching). One or two pages with scribbled letters and arrows of her
manuscripts, after he described what they contained, fairly leaped out of
the paper, without straying too far because held by my recollection of the
actual story the outline of which had seemed so inexpressive at first. I
doubt it that Ill visit Greenway one day, or inquire deeper into the book I
have by me now. I dont have a scholars dedication, nor a collectors
orderly love. This is why Don Johnsons news, the way they affected me,
came as a surprise. I hope all these valuable manuscripts will be one day on
display in Nabokovs museum in St. Petersburg
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de
Don Johnson
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 20 de agosto de 2010 12:18
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Assunto: [NABOKV-L] London Sale of Nabokov chess materials
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Nabokov's <http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
manuscripts sold at auction in London
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Three <http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
lots of direct relevance to Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) ,
went at auction for the sum of £ 56 , 375 . One of them - the anniversary
edition of "Works " AS Pushkin , Pushkin Committee issued in 1937 under the
editorship of Professor ML Hoffman (estimate £ 12 thousand to 18 thousand ),
was sold for £ 43,250.
This <http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
publication is literally carved marks on Nabokov's Russian and English
languages , which shows how carefully he worked with the texts of poems by
an outstanding poet . Partly this is scanty comments or translate individual
words , in some cases, Nabokov makes the fields translations of entire
poems, but somewhere there are comments on the significance of a particular
usage . On separate sheets of sketches are found - in one place is a sketch
of a butterfly, and in another - a sketch of chess combinations.
Publication
<http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable> of "
Poems " by Fyodor Tyutchev ( Izdtelstvo "Word " , 1921 ), with notes Nabokov
on 35 pages in Russian and English languages, took the hammer for £ 5,625.
Collection of 58 sketches of chess problems created in the period since the
beginning of 1930 on April 30, 1974 and signed "Vladimir Nabokov", "V.
Nabokov" or "VN" (Estimate £ 5,000-8,000), was sold for £ 7,500
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miss the name of the institutions or people who acquired them, or are these
to remain anonimous? I was surprised in that the news caused me a special
discomfort, as if Id been cheated of something that I ignored, words
getting loose like suddenly hatched butterflies I surmised were pinned down
and tagged for all eternity.
Recently I bought the Brazilian edition of Agatha Christies secret
notebooks, fifty years of mysteries in the making, by John Curran ( 2009),
with the inclusion of two still-unpublished stories with Poirot. I havent
yet read it. The edition is not sophisticated, but there are reproductions
of manuscript pages and diagrams. In his introduction, Curran describes
Agatha Christies residence in Greenway and how he kept recognizing in the
casual objects on his way, a turn of a staircase, a vase, items which had
been key elements in Christies various detective novels. His enthusiastic
and extensive knowledge and love for Christies work is catching (and
fetching). One or two pages with scribbled letters and arrows of her
manuscripts, after he described what they contained, fairly leaped out of
the paper, without straying too far because held by my recollection of the
actual story the outline of which had seemed so inexpressive at first. I
doubt it that Ill visit Greenway one day, or inquire deeper into the book I
have by me now. I dont have a scholars dedication, nor a collectors
orderly love. This is why Don Johnsons news, the way they affected me,
came as a surprise. I hope all these valuable manuscripts will be one day on
display in Nabokovs museum in St. Petersburg
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de
Don Johnson
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 20 de agosto de 2010 12:18
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Assunto: [NABOKV-L] London Sale of Nabokov chess materials
<http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
06/05/2010 <http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
23:00
Nabokov's <http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
manuscripts sold at auction in London
<http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
Three <http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
lots of direct relevance to Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) ,
went at auction for the sum of £ 56 , 375 . One of them - the anniversary
edition of "Works " AS Pushkin , Pushkin Committee issued in 1937 under the
editorship of Professor ML Hoffman (estimate £ 12 thousand to 18 thousand ),
was sold for £ 43,250.
This <http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable>
publication is literally carved marks on Nabokov's Russian and English
languages , which shows how carefully he worked with the texts of poems by
an outstanding poet . Partly this is scanty comments or translate individual
words , in some cases, Nabokov makes the fields translations of entire
poems, but somewhere there are comments on the significance of a particular
usage . On separate sheets of sketches are found - in one place is a sketch
of a butterfly, and in another - a sketch of chess combinations.
Publication
<http://news.finance.ua/ru/~/1/0/all/2010/06/05/199080/printable> of "
Poems " by Fyodor Tyutchev ( Izdtelstvo "Word " , 1921 ), with notes Nabokov
on 35 pages in Russian and English languages, took the hammer for £ 5,625.
Collection of 58 sketches of chess problems created in the period since the
beginning of 1930 on April 30, 1974 and signed "Vladimir Nabokov", "V.
Nabokov" or "VN" (Estimate £ 5,000-8,000), was sold for £ 7,500
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Visit <http://www.nabokovonline.com> "Nabokov Online Journal"
Visit <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> Zembla
View Nabokv-L <http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm> Policies
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All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both
co-editors.
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