U.S. 1940 - 1960
U.S. 1940 - 1960 contains groupings which relate to Nabokov's life and writings. Clicking on the grouping titles will lead you to text about each subject, as well as to a checklist of the items in that grouping that are on display in the exhibition at The New York Public Library.
12. New Directions  
Vladimir Nabokov
Nikolai Gogol
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1944
Berg Collection
   
13. Bend Sinister. New York 1947
Vladimir Nabokov
Bend Sinister
New York: Henry Holt, [1947]
Berg Collection
Vladimir Nabokov
Autograph letter draft to Allen Tate
Pencil on card, [April 1947]
Berg Collection
   
14. Russian Stories  
Vladimir Nabokov
"Solus Rex"
In: Sovremmennye zapiski (Paris), LXX (April 1940)
Berg Collection
   
15. American Stories  
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1949]
Nabokov's copy, with his holograph annotations
Berg Collection
Vladimir Nabokov
["Speak On, Memory"]
Holograph notes on index cards, ca. 1969
Berg Collection
   
16. The New Yorker  
   
17. Conclusive Evidence. New York 1951
Speak, Memory. New York 1967
Vladimir Nabokov
"Gardens and Parks," chapter fifteen of Conclusive Evidence, with notes to the publisher
Typescript signed, with Nabokov's holograph corrections, ca. 1950-51
Berg Collection
Vladimir Nabokov
Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Holograph manuscript list of illustrations with captions, [1965]
Berg Collection
   
18. Lepidopterological Papers, 1941-53
Special pass for "Mr. V. Nabokov" to the American Museum of Natural History
Issued New York City, January 1, 1941
Berg Collection
W. J. Holland
The Butterfly Book
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1933
Nabokov's copy, with his extensive holograph annotations throughout, signed on the title page, Dmitri Nabokov, etc.
Berg Collection

   
19. Lectures on Russian Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
"Anna Karenin"
Holograph and typescript draft of lecture notes,
1950-59?
Berg Collection
   
20. Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
"Ulysses"
Holograph and typescript notes for lectures, ca. 1950
Berg Collection
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
Translated by A. L. Lloyd
New York: Vanguard Press, 1946
Nabokov's copy, with his holograph annotations and retranslations
Berg Collection
   
21. Lolita. Paris, 1955  
Vladimir Nabokov
"Lolita: A Screenplay"
Typescript with Nabokov's holograph corrections, additions, and deletions, [1960]
Berg Collection
Vladimir Nabokov, London, 1959
Photograph by Colin Sherburne
Berg Collection
   
22. Pnin. Garden City, New York, 1957
Vladimir Nabokov
Notes on the Swedish translation of Pnin
Holograph notes in a Cornell University Examination Book in the hand of Véra Nabokov, ca. 1958
Berg Collection

 

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