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Lot 99
Sale 5183 - Books & Manuscripts
Feb 18, 2021
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[Literature] Nabokov, Vladimir Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1969). First English edition. 8vo. (xiv), 589 pp. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed with a butterfly drawing to Vera Nabokov's close cousin, Anya Feigin, dated October, 1970. Original red cloth, stamped in gilt; in original unclipped olive green dust-jacket. Nabokov, an accomplished lepidopterist, only included butterfly drawings in books inscribed to those especially important to him. The closer the connection, the more elaborate the drawing. Field 0885.