Poems and Problems.
"My yearning ache, my recollections I swear to preserve with royal care ever since I adopted the blazon of exile": First edition of Nabokov's Poems and Problems
Poems and Problems.
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Item Number: 89073
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970.
First edition of Nabokov’s book of poetry and chess problems. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Photograph on the rear panel of Nabokov playing chess by Hallsman. A nice example.
Nabokov's Poems and Problems contains 39 Russian poems with English translations, 14 English poems and 18 chess problems with solutions.
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