Three lots of direct relevance to Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977)
, went at auction for the sum of £ 56 , 375 . One of them - the anniversary
edition of "Works " AS Pushkin , Pushkin Committee issued in 1937 under the
editorship of Professor ML Hoffman (estimate £ 12 thousand to 18 thousand ), was
sold for £ 43,250.
This publication is literally carved marks on Nabokov's Russian and English
languages , which shows how carefully he worked with the texts of poems by an
outstanding poet . Partly this is scanty comments or translate individual words
, in some cases, Nabokov makes the fields translations of entire poems, but
somewhere there are comments on the significance of a particular usage . On
separate sheets of sketches are found - in one place is a sketch of a butterfly,
and in another - a sketch of chess combinations.
Publication of " Poems " by Fyodor Tyutchev ( Izdtelstvo "Word " , 1921 ),
with notes Nabokov on 35 pages in Russian and English languages, took the hammer
for £ 5,625. Collection of 58 sketches of chess problems created in the period
since the beginning of 1930 on April 30, 1974 and signed "Vladimir Nabokov", "V.
Nabokov" or "VN" (Estimate £ 5,000-8,000), was sold for £
7,500