Subject
Fw: VN Catalogue Book on Mehta's Coffee Table
From
Date
Body
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Reardon" <robinheather@yahoo.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (40
lines) ------------------
> Glenn Horowitz had a cocktail party in the spring of
> 1999 at which many rare editions of Nabokov's work
> were on display and for sale--first editions inscribed
> to Vera, complete with colored drawings of butterflies
> (many of these images appeared in the Atlantic Monthly
> the next spring); VN's copy of Eugene Onegin in
> Russian, with his English glosses in the margins.
> Because I attended this party at the invitation of
> someone who worked (far) below Sonny Mehta at Knopf, I
> rather suspect that book on SM's coffee table is the
> catalog for Glenn Horowitz's 1999 sale of VN rarities.
>
>
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: LANNAREL@aol.com
> > To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:24 PM
> > Subject: Book on Mehta's Coffee Table
> >
> >
> > Someone noticed in the Feb. issue of Vanity Fair on
> > p. l57 a book on Nabokov on the coffee table in
> > Sonny Mehta's apartment. It took a magnifying glass
> > to read the print on the book's spine: NABOKOV
> > Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. The book could be a
> > catalog of the Nabokov archive in the New York
> > Public Library since Horowitz helped transfer the
> > archive from Switzerland to the Berg Collection. Any
> > further ideas?
> >
> >
> > Phil Iannarelli
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
> http://mailplus.yahoo.com
From: "Robin Reardon" <robinheather@yahoo.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (40
lines) ------------------
> Glenn Horowitz had a cocktail party in the spring of
> 1999 at which many rare editions of Nabokov's work
> were on display and for sale--first editions inscribed
> to Vera, complete with colored drawings of butterflies
> (many of these images appeared in the Atlantic Monthly
> the next spring); VN's copy of Eugene Onegin in
> Russian, with his English glosses in the margins.
> Because I attended this party at the invitation of
> someone who worked (far) below Sonny Mehta at Knopf, I
> rather suspect that book on SM's coffee table is the
> catalog for Glenn Horowitz's 1999 sale of VN rarities.
>
>
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: LANNAREL@aol.com
> > To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:24 PM
> > Subject: Book on Mehta's Coffee Table
> >
> >
> > Someone noticed in the Feb. issue of Vanity Fair on
> > p. l57 a book on Nabokov on the coffee table in
> > Sonny Mehta's apartment. It took a magnifying glass
> > to read the print on the book's spine: NABOKOV
> > Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. The book could be a
> > catalog of the Nabokov archive in the New York
> > Public Library since Horowitz helped transfer the
> > archive from Switzerland to the Berg Collection. Any
> > further ideas?
> >
> >
> > Phil Iannarelli
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
> http://mailplus.yahoo.com