NMLP P-032266 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Gift (Dar)

Vladimir Nabokov · G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York) · 1963

Originally serialized in Russian (Sovremennye Zapiski, Paris, 1937–38, with one chapter suppressed); first complete Russian book by the Chekhov Publishing House, New York, 1952. The true first English is the Putnam US edition, published May 27, 1963, preceding the UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson edition of November 8, 1963 by roughly five and a half months.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032266 for "The Gift (Dar)" by Vladimir Nabokov (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032266, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).