All eleven Nabokov’s lots were hammered down for very good prices at Christie’s in London on 28 November.

The prices here include the 25% buyer’s premium. The grand total was GBP60,800.

Stikhi [Poems], 1916, GBP25,000
Grozd’ [The cluster], 1923, GBP4750
Ania v strane chudes [Alice in wonderland], 1923, GBP11,875
Gornii put’ [The empyrean path], 1923, GBP4000
Mashen’ka [Mary], 1926, GBP5250
Vozvrashchenie Chorba [The return of Chorb], 1930, GBP3000
Podvig [Glory], 1932, GBP2000
Otchaianie [Despair], 1936, GBP6875
Priglashenie na kazn’ [Invitation to a beheading], 1938, GBP2375
Sogliadatai [The eye], 1938, GBP4000
Lolita, 1955, GBP6875

Considering condition and rarity, buyers significantly overspent on three of the lots: Mashen’ka, Otchaianie (it does have the VN ownership label that Glenn Horowitz put on many books from Nabokov’s library when he sold them for Dmitri Nabokov years after VN’s death), and Lolita.