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Box 4

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Contains 22 Results:

Correspondence and statements from foreign-language publishers, 1945 to 1959 ., 1945, 1959

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

7 items (including one autograph note). Statements and correspondence from Mondadori (Italy), Steingrüber (?), Reitzel (Denmark), Steimatzki, and Uitgeverij Oitsterwijk. All but one for Lolita.

Dates: 1945; 1959
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Correspondence and statements to and from foreign-language publishers, July 1960 to June 1961 ., July 1960, June 1961

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

11 items. Statements and correspondence to and from SUR, Editora Civilizacao Brazileira, Gerolymbos (Greece), Uitgerverij Oisterwijk (Netherland), Bar David (Israel), Cappelens (Norway). All re Lolita.

Dates: July 1960; June 1961
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Correspondence and statements from foreign-language publishers, August 1961 to last quarter 1961 ., August 1961, last quarter 1961

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

8 items. Statements and correspondence to and from SUR, Rowohlt (Germany), Bonnier (Sweden), Reitzel (Denmark), Sagan (Israel). All re Lolita.

Dates: August 1961; last quarter 1961
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Correspondence and statements from foreign-language publishers, 1962 to 1963 ., 1962, 1963

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

5 items (including 1 autograph note). Statements and correspondence from Tutle (Japan), Jaico (India), Boa Leitura Editora (Brazil), Transworld, and Mondadori.

Dates: 1962; 1963
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Correspondence and statements to from foreign-language publishers, 1964 to 1967 ., 1964, 1967

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

10 items. Statements and correspondence from Jaico (India), Mondadori, Gummerus (Finland), and Uitgeverig Oisterwijk.

Dates: 1964; 1967
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Publicity material from Olympia, 1955 to 1958 ., 1955, 1958

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents 8 items: (1) a "Note" (in French) concerning a "collection of books on art and archaeology" published by Olympia. (2) a list of newspapers/magazines/journals, with the heading " Lolita: Liste des services de presse." (3) a newspaper clipping (in French) referencing John Gordon's attack on Lolita, summarizing the novel's plot as a tale of love between a middle aged man and a girl of six, and locating Cornell...
Dates: 1955; 1958
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Publicity material from Olympia Press, 1959 ., 1959

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents 2 items: (1) 5 page press release (in French) that appears just prior to the release of Gallimard's edition of Lolita. Traces both publication and legal history of Lolita. Ends by congratulating Gallimard for its "act of courage" in publishing a work described as "unhealthy", and by calling for the lifting of the second ban on the novel. (2) an open letter (in English) to the French government calling for the lifting...
Dates: 1959
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Publicity material from Olympia, 1961 to 1962 ., 1961, 1962

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents 3 items: (1) a press release (in French) explaining Olympia's position with regard to the upcoming legal proceedings (March 14). Mentions a letter of protest signed by about thirty American and British authors, including Bertrand Russell, Rosamond Lehmann, E. M. Forster, Ivy-Compton-Burnett, Lawrence Durrell, Arthur Miller, Osbert Sitwell, and Graham Greene. (2) Girodias' Playboy article from April 1961. (3) a letter (in English and French), possibly to booksellers...
Dates: 1961; 1962
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Contract with Steimatzki, February 5, 1959 ., February 5, 1959

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of contract with Steimatzki for the Israeli publication in English of Lolita. With letter from Girodias to Steimatzki attached.

Dates: February 5, 1959
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

Documents from legal proceedings between Olympia, Clairouin and Vladimir Nabokov, 1958 ., 1958

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

3 items: (1) a chronology of the relationship between VN and Olympia ending in 1957 (2 copies). (2) TLS from Emile-Jean Bomsel, Girodias' lawyer (1.2.58). (3) a list of questions posed by Clairouin (?) (1.3.58).

Dates: 1958
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4627, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov publishing correspondence / Series III. Lolita Miscellaneous 1945-1970 (Correspondence, Statements, Publicity, Contracts, Legal Documents)

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