NABOKOV, Vladmir (1899-1977). A collection of approximately 53 autograph manuscript chess problems, n.d. [?1930s] - 30 April 1974, many signed ('Vladimir Nabokov', 'V. Nabokov', 'V.N.'), in English and Russian, the first 18 numbered as published in Poems and Problems , a further series numbered 19-28, the numbered problems noting the date and place of composition and subsequent publications, solutions usually noted on verso, sometimes with commentary ('A neat but rather pallid waiter'; 'A Christmassy self-interference freak'), with sometimes heavy emendations and cancellations, in pencil, coloured inks, coloured crayons, on 23 index cards and a variety of other sizes of paper, often scraps, 12mo - 4to, occasionally with an additional draft problem on verso, one bearing a watercolour drawing on the verso of chess pieces within a pavillion, the majority with hand-drawn grids, six envelopes; in an album, 4to. Provenance : by descent from Vladimir Nabokov.
NABOKOV, Vladmir (1899-1977). A collection of approximately 53 autograph manuscript chess problems, n.d. [?1930s] - 30 April 1974, many signed ('Vladimir Nabokov', 'V. Nabokov', 'V.N.'), in English and Russian, the first 18 numbered as published in Poems and Problems , a further series numbered 19-28, the numbered problems noting the date and place of composition and subsequent publications, solutions usually noted on verso, sometimes with commentary ('A neat but rather pallid waiter'; 'A Christmassy self-interference freak'), with sometimes heavy emendations and cancellations, in pencil, coloured inks, coloured crayons, on 23 index cards and a variety of other sizes of paper, often scraps, 12mo - 4to, occasionally with an additional draft problem on verso, one bearing a watercolour drawing on the verso of chess pieces within a pavillion, the majority with hand-drawn grids, six envelopes; in an album, 4to. Provenance : by descent from Vladimir Nabokov. In his memoir, Speak, Memory , Nabokov writes of the appeal of the 'originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity' of creating chess problems, comparing it to any other act of artistic creativity.
NABOKOV, Vladmir (1899-1977). A collection of approximately 53 autograph manuscript chess problems, n.d. [?1930s] - 30 April 1974, many signed ('Vladimir Nabokov', 'V. Nabokov', 'V.N.'), in English and Russian, the first 18 numbered as published in Poems and Problems , a further series numbered 19-28, the numbered problems noting the date and place of composition and subsequent publications, solutions usually noted on verso, sometimes with commentary ('A neat but rather pallid waiter'; 'A Christmassy self-interference freak'), with sometimes heavy emendations and cancellations, in pencil, coloured inks, coloured crayons, on 23 index cards and a variety of other sizes of paper, often scraps, 12mo - 4to, occasionally with an additional draft problem on verso, one bearing a watercolour drawing on the verso of chess pieces within a pavillion, the majority with hand-drawn grids, six envelopes; in an album, 4to. Provenance : by descent from Vladimir Nabokov.
NABOKOV, Vladmir (1899-1977). A collection of approximately 53 autograph manuscript chess problems, n.d. [?1930s] - 30 April 1974, many signed ('Vladimir Nabokov', 'V. Nabokov', 'V.N.'), in English and Russian, the first 18 numbered as published in Poems and Problems , a further series numbered 19-28, the numbered problems noting the date and place of composition and subsequent publications, solutions usually noted on verso, sometimes with commentary ('A neat but rather pallid waiter'; 'A Christmassy self-interference freak'), with sometimes heavy emendations and cancellations, in pencil, coloured inks, coloured crayons, on 23 index cards and a variety of other sizes of paper, often scraps, 12mo - 4to, occasionally with an additional draft problem on verso, one bearing a watercolour drawing on the verso of chess pieces within a pavillion, the majority with hand-drawn grids, six envelopes; in an album, 4to. Provenance : by descent from Vladimir Nabokov. In his memoir, Speak, Memory , Nabokov writes of the appeal of the 'originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity' of creating chess problems, comparing it to any other act of artistic creativity.
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