Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
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New York: Puntam (1966) Revised Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine with full color illustrated endpapers. Book Jacket Condition: Very Good in price-clipped jacket. 316 pp. B/W photography throughout.
From the front flap:
"Speak, Memory," says Vladimir Nabokov and an enchanting host of recollections of his youthful years, of a liberal-minded father, a beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of lovely civilized houses in St. Petersburg and the surrounding countryside come flooding back to him. Recalled in Mr. Nabokov's inimitable style, his memories present a moving and nostalgic account of a vanished world. Mr. Nabokov wrote the original version of SPEAK, MEMORY in America during the war when no archives, family papers or old friends were available to confirm an incident to correct or deny another, or to bring further scenes to mind. During the past several years which he has spent in Switzerland, Vladimir Nabokov has been gently checking facts, collecting additional material and tracking down family photographs in order to present a fuller picture of the background from which he sprang.