Several dozen catalogues and publications, available for purchase or as preview downloads, document literary, historical, and art- and photography- related rare books, manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera, often from the libraries of the authors themselves. Arranged in chronological order with the newest first.
Catalogues and Publications RSSVéra’s Butterflies
First editions by Vladimir Nabokov inscribed to his wife
A biblio- and biographical history of Nabokov’s career, features descriptions of 135 books from the library. It includes a previously unpublished excerpt from Nabokov’s Lolita screenplay, accompanied by an essay by Michael Wood, as well as essays by several prominent Nabokovians and scholars: his son and translator Dmitri Nabokov; his biographer Brian Boyd; Véra’s biographer Stacy Schiff; lepidopterist Kurt Johnson; novelist and memoirist James Salter; and Stephen Jay Gould. We can also provide lists of nearly fifty books inscribed to Véra’s sister Sonia and her cousin Anna Feigin; dozens of Nabokov’s shelf copies of his works in Russian and English; and hundreds of his copies of translations of his works.
272 pp., 6 ¼ x 9 ½ in., 37 color plates. Cloth, $175; paperback, $100.
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