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by [Nabokov, Vladimir] ‘Wladimir Nabokoff-Sirin’

$1,648 · Offered by Biblio

Berlin: Im Verlag Ullstein, 1928. FIRST GERMAN EDITION, 8vo, pp. [3]-253, [1]. Original red boards, front board blocked centrally in blind, spine lettered in black. Poor-quality paper a little toned. Spine slightly cocked, some rubbing to extremities. Ownership inscription of W.H. Brawn[?] to flyleaf, dated 1/11/38. The rare boards issue of the first translation of any of Nabokov rsquo;s writings, a German version of his first novel, initially published in Russian two years earlier as #1052; #1072; #1096; #1077; #1085; #1100; #1082; #1072; (Mashenka) under the name V. Sirin, and here translated by Jakob Margot Schubert and G. Jarcho. Nabokov rsquo;s earliest publications were written in Russian while he was (unhappily) living in Berlin and he pointedly neglected to develop any fluency in the German language. The publisher of this edition, Ullstein Verlag, also produced the Russian emigre newspaper Rul, which Nabokov rsquo;s father had edited, and the German-language newspaper that serialised this text prior to the book-form publication. The book was published as part of the series of affordable literary texts lsquo;Die gelben Ullstein-B uuml;cher rsquo;, which ran from 1927 to 1933, and like its series-mates is normally found in yellow pictorial wrappers. Ullstein was the largest of the Jewish-owned publishers at the time, and was forcibly lsquo;Aryanised rsquo; from 1934, the Jewish name Ullstein being removed in 1937 and replaced with lsquo;Deutscher rsquo;; at the same tim

• Publisher: Im Verlag Ullstein
• Year: 1928
• Binding: hardcover

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