During the years when VN's work could not appear in
his homeland, the CHekhov Publishing House in New York put out three of his
works in 1952-56
(with CIA funding): the first full text of DAR (The Gift); the story
collection Vesna in v Fial'te (Spring in Fialta); and the expanded Russian
translation of VN autobiography. Although these texts are now more cheaply
available in indigenous Russian editions, the now rare Chekhov editions are
being offered by "GLOBUS, A Slavic Bookstore" in San Francisco at $25 for DAR
and $20 for the other two.