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A new set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Poems, Nabokov’s collection of 14 poems in English, published by Doubleday in 1959. It is A33 in the 1986 bibliography.

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A new set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Стихотворения: 1929-1951 [Stikhotvoreniia: 1929–1951 / Poems: 1929–1951], Nabokov’s handy little booklet of 15 poems in Russian, published in Paris by Rifma in 1952. It is A27 in the 1986 bibliography.

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New draft pages: Возвращение Чорба [Vozvrashchenie Chorba / The return of Chorb], a collection of 15 stories and 24 poems published by Slovo in Berlin in 1929. It is A11 in the 1986 bibliography.

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New draft pages: Carrousel, published in 1987 by Spectatorpers, a private press in the Netherlands. It is a collection of two essays and a poem in English that had originally been written by Nabokov in 1923. It is A57 in the 1991 update to my bibliography.

I am going to be away for several weeks and will suspend my weekly postings until I return. Stay tuned.

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New draft pages: Nabokov’s translations of Russian poems, Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev, published in 1945 by New Directions. It is A23 in the 1986 bibliography.

Notice that the British edition in 1947 had more than just a different title. It also had three more translations of Pushkin and seven of Lermontov than the American edition had.

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Here is a new set of draft pages: Два пути [Dva puti / Two paths], Nabokov’s 1918 self-published collection of 12 poems with eight poems by his Tenishev schoolmate Andrew Balashov. I numbered it A3 in my 1986 bibliography.

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I’ve posted a new set of draft pages, this time for Nabokov’s first extant book, Стихи [Stikhi/Poems]. See it under The Drafts on the right, along with the draft pages for Машенька [Mashen’ka/Mary].

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