NABOKOV'S DOZEN: Thirteen Stories.

by NABOKOV, Vladimir:

$1,637 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

London: William Heinemann. 1959. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author s wife V ra Nabokov to the Danish poet and translator Uffe Harder. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Sheila Perry. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt sharp, the contents clean throughout, lacking marks or spotting. In the near fine dustwrapper, lightly toned but generally bright and clean and without fading. A touch rubbed to spine tips, small (c. 8 mm) closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel. Not price-clipped and correctly priced 15s net to the front flap. A beautifully preserved example with a scarce inscription from Nabokov s beloved wife, companion, first reader, and all-round aide, V ra. Inscribed by V ra Nabokov in black ink to the front free endpaper, Uffe / l aid de nuls d s cert s de / traduction / au tel phone! / ton ami / V ra (roughly translatable as Uffe / Adviser for novices in matters of translation by telephone! your friend, V ra ). The recipient, Uffe Harder (1930-2002), from whose library this volume derives, was a Danish poet, translator, President of Danish P.E.N., and member of the Danish Academy. He published thirteen volumes of poetry but may be best known for rendering into Danish works by (among others) Flaubert, Beckett, Borges, Claude Simon, Carlos Fuentes, and Seamus Heaney. A selection of his poems, translated into English, was iss

• Publisher: London: William Heinemann. 1959
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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