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(Nabokov, Vladimir) Funke, Sarah VERA'S BUTTERFLIES...FIRST EDITIONS BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE
New York Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc 1999, Octavo, (xii); 13- 267; (v), bound in maroon wrappers with gilt titles on upper cover and spine. Designed by Jerry Kelly, Typeset in Hermann Zapf's Melior type and Printed by The Steinhour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont, this is one of 2,000 copies printed, of which 500 were clothbound. This exquisitely produced and exhaustively researched catalog offers a magnificent glimpse into the lesser known regions of Vladimir Nabokov's life. His deep affection for his wife, Vera, was tenderly expressed with ethereal illustrations of butterflies, combining his expert knowledge of lepidoptery, his keen ability as an artist and his literary imagination, resulting in a very moving glimpse of the complex nature of an extraordianry man. Nabokov's exquisite drawings of butterflies accompanying his signature on his work were given only to those close to him and none with more beauty than those done for Vera. This is a fine copy, with price list and ! and a four page dedication, "Verochka Verochka Amusing The Muse", laid-in. Beautifully illustrated in full color, this is a scarce and important bibliographical reference, providing a wealth of scholarship about the author, with contributions by Brian Boyd, Stephen Jay Gould, Kurt Johnson, James Slater, Stacy Schiff and Michael Wood. Edited by Glenn Horowitz.
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