Poems

by Vladimir Nabokov Publisher : Doubleday & Co., Inc. Year : 1958 Edition : 1st Pages : 43 Condition : Very Good Binding : Hardcover Dust Jacket : Yes Price : $129.95

Item Description :

Doubleday & Co, 1959. FIRST EDITION Stated Hardback with scarce dust jacket, protected in mylar wraps. An exceedingly rare, long Out-of-Print book of Poems by the inimitable Vladimir Nabokov. His complete Poetic works in English. 8vo., 43 pages. Drawings by Robin Jacques. Very good condition, ex-libris with usual markings, light blue cloth over boards, square; clean and bright pages. Dust jacket, minor damp stains. TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Refrigerator Awakes / A Literary Dinner / A Discovery / The Poem / An Evening of Russian Poetry / The Room / Voluptates Tactionum / Restoration / The Poplar / Lines Written in Oregon / Ode to a Model / On Translating "Eugene Onegin" / Rain / The Ballad of Longwood Glen. EXCERPT: "A Literary Dinner" : "Come here, said my hostess, her face making room / for one of those pink introductory smiles / that link, like valley of fruit trees in bloom, / the slopes of two names. / I want you, she murmured, to eat Dr. James. // I was hungry. The Doctor looked good. He had read / the great book of the week and ha liked it, he said, / because it was so powerful. So I was brought / a generous helping. His mauve-bosomed wife / kept showing me, very politely, I thought, / the tenderest bits with the point of her knife. / I ate - and in Egypt the sunsets were swell; / The Russians were doing remarkably well; / Had I met a Prince Poprinsky, whom he had known / in Caparabella, or was it Mentone? / They had travelled extensively, he and his wife; her hobby was People, his hobby was Life. / All was good and well cooked, but the tastiest part / was his nut-flavored, crisp cerebellum. The heart / resembled a shiny brown date, / and I stowed all the studs on the edge of my plate."

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