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NABOKOV, Vladimir -- ZIMMER, Dieter E. Vladimir Nabokov. Bibliographie des Gesamtwerks. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1963. 8° (190 x 115mm). Original wrappers (small round sticker on the front wrapper). Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (presentation inscription to:) -- Dmitri Nabokov.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY NABOKOV TO HIS SON DMITRI WITH A LONG MANUSCRIPT POEM. Nabokov inscribed this copy twice, at Christmas 1959 and Christmas 1963, once quoting Pasternak's 'Ia ves mir zastavil plakat' and once with a variant of his own poem that opens: 'Kakoe sdelal ia durnoe delo i ia-li razvratitel i zlodei Ia, zastavliaiushchii mechtat mir tselyi o bednoi devochke moei?' Zimmer's is the first comprehensive bibliography of Nabokov's works.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY NABOKOV TO HIS SON DMITRI WITH A LONG MANUSCRIPT POEM. Nabokov inscribed this copy twice, at Christmas 1959 and Christmas 1963, once quoting Pasternak's 'Ia ves mir zastavil plakat' and once with a variant of his own poem that opens: 'Kakoe sdelal ia durnoe delo i ia-li razvratitel i zlodei Ia, zastavliaiushchii mechtat mir tselyi o bednoi devochke moei?' Zimmer's is the first comprehensive bibliography of Nabokov's works.