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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov is a lyrical and introspective memoir that reflects on the author's early life and his journey from childhood in pre-Revolutionary Russia to his emigration to the United States. Written with Nabokov's signature elegance, the memoir explores his experiences growing up in a privileged family, his love for language and literature, and the profound impact of the Russian Revolution on his life. The book also delves into his family's personal history, his relationship with his parents, and his early education. Blending vivid memories with philosophical musings, Speak, Memory offers a deeply personal and poetic narrative, showcasing Nabokov s masterful prose and his reflections on memory, identity, and the passage of time.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. New York, Harcourt, 2008. 1996. First edition. First printing (with full letter line including A). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($40.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Shipped in well padded box. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English after his forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent in Russian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, he bridged the gap between languages nimbly and joyously. Here, collected for the first time in one volume as Nabokov always wished, are many of his English translations of Russian verse, presented next to the Russian originals. Here, also, are some of his notes on the dangers and thrills of translation. With an introduction by Brian Boyd, author of the prize-winning biography of Nabokov, VERSES AND VERSIONS is a momentous and authoritative contribution to Nabokov's published works. New, pristine, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. In a tour de force of typography and letterpress printing, Nabokov's English is presented along side the original in Cyrillic, accompanied by a transliteration.The paper is Italian mould-made Magnani, the types are Bembo for the English translation, 16 point; Modern 8A for the Cyrillic and transliteration, 12 point; and Ariston script for display in various sizes. The Cyrillic was cast in-house at M&H Type, using matrices that had been acquired at the time of the United Nations charter being printed in San Francisco. The format is folio, 15-5/8 by 11 inches, 256 pages. The frontispiece reproduces a painting by Stan Washburn, portraying Pushkin and Nabokov side by side. It was painted especially for this edition. The book is sewn by hand with linen thread over linen tapes, with handsewn bands at the head and foot in three colors of silk thread. The cover has a brown goatskin spine with gold foil-stamped titling and tan cloth over boards. The book comes in a slipcase. The edition is limited to 300 numbered copies for sale. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is not only Russia's greatest poet, but also, to those in a position to judge, the greatest poet since Shakespeare. His novel in verse, "Eugene Onegin", stands at the center of Russian literature in a way that nothing else in world literature dominates its tradition. By common consent Pushkin is also the most untranslatable of writers. Dante and Shakespeare have long been admired across linguistic borders, but because Pushkin's unique harmony of rhyme and reason defies translation, his reputation outside those who knew Russian remained pallid or merely notional for more than a century after his death. His quality did not become apparent to the English-speaking world until Nabokov's 1964 "Eugene Onegin" translation and commentary, revised still more stringently in the 1975 version that this edition follows. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) has been called "God's own novelist". He was not only one of the greatest writers of all time but also one of the most astonishing translators. Far surpassing his other translating was the effort he expended on Pushkin. He once predicted: "I shall be remembered for Lolita and my work on Eugene Onegin"; and later wrote: "The greatest reward I can think of is that students may use my work as a pony". But the publication of "Eugene Onegin" in four volumes by Pantheon Books in the Bollingen Series was not what Nabokov had envisioned. His translation was presented in the first volume, followed by his commentaries in the next two volumes, and in volume four an index and a reprint of the minuscule 1837 edition at the back of the book, so small as to be unreadable even for those who could read Russian in Cyrillic type. Nabokov had hoped for his translation to be faced line for line with the Russian original and a transliteration, with stress marked in all words of more than one syllable. But his publishers found the cost, on top of that of the luxuriant four-volume set, to be prohibitive. Nevertheless, the set, as designed by Bert Clarke for the 1964 edition, is one of the most handsome publications ever produced in the United States. Clarke was an eminent typographer and this must be his greatest achievement as a book designer. As Brian Boyd declares: "Nabokov would have been thrilled to see this Arion edition, which solves these problems of presentation so elegantly: the English translation with, beside it, the Cyrillic original interlineated with an indented stress-marked transliteration (prepared by Stanislav Shvabrin, the leading scholar of the finer points of Nabokov's verse), both original and transliteration set in type small enough that their two versions of the line match the placement and numbering of the lines of the translation, so that the eye can easily skip from English to Russian. But what difference could a mere typographic arrangement make? In this case, all the difference in the world. It allows Pushkin to leap into sharp focus; it allows Nabokov's aims in translating the poem as he did to become instantly clear; it allows readers to see the essential modesty and solicitude that drove Nabokov's method." ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an exceptionally large and heavy book and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. Stan Washburn (illustratore).…

Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. Limited edition. #64 of a limited 300 copies. Bound in publisher's brown goat skin over tan silk cloth with spine lettered in gilt; prospectus laid in. Slightly sunned spine, else Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. A handsome Arion Press edition of the Russian Romantic-era poet and playwright's epic poem translated by Russian expat Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov's English is presented along side the original in Cyrillic, accompanied by a transliteration. Signed.…