CUA — Cambridge University Archives.
Defense — The Defense, trans. Michael Scammel with VN. New York: Putnam, 1964.
DS — Details of a Sunset and Other Stories, trans. DN with VN. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
EO — Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin, trans, and with commentary by VN. New York: Bollingen, 1964; rev. ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
EW — Edmund Wilson.
Field, Life — Andrew Field. Nabokov: His Life in Part. New York: Viking, 1977.
Field, VN — Andrew Field. VN: The Life and Work of Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Crown, 1986.
Ferrand and Jacques Nabokov — Ferrand and SSN. Les Nabokov. Montreuil, France: privately printed, 1982.
Gibian and Parker — George Gibian and Stephen Jan Parker, eds. The Achievement of Vladimir Nabokov. Ithaca: Cornell University Center for International Studies, 1984.
Glory — Glory. Trans. DN with VN. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
Hoover — Hoover Institute, Stanford University.
IB — Invitation to a Beheading, trans. DN with VN. New York: Putnam, 1959.
KQK — King, Queen, Knave. Trans. DN with VN. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
KW — Katharine White.
LATH — Look at the Harlequins! New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
LC — Library of Congress.
LCNA — Nabokov Archives, LC.
LCS — Shakhovskoy Archives, LC (см. также ЗШ).
Lects — Lectures on Literature, ed. Fredson Bowers. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark, 1980.
LectsR — Lectures on Russian Literature, ed. Fredson Bowers. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark, 1981.
Lolita — Lolita. New York: Putnam, 1958.
MUSSR — The Man from the USSR and Other Plays, trans. DN. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
ND — Nabokov's Dozen. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957.
NWL — The Nabokov — Wilson Letters, ed. Simon Karlinsky. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
NYRB — New York Review of Books.
PF — Pale Fire. New York: Putnam, 1962.
PP — Poems and Problems. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
Quennell — Peter Quennell, ed. Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.
RB — A Russian Beauty and Other Stories, trans. DN and Simon Karlinsky with VN. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Rivers and Nicol — Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work, ed. J.E. Rivers and Charles Nicol. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.
SL — Selected Letters 1940–1977, ed. DN and Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark, Layman, 1989.
SM — Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited. New York: Putnam, 1966.
SO — Strong Opinions. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.
TD — Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories, trans. DN with VN. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
VNRN — Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter. Lawrence, Kan., 1978. — From no. 13, 1984, becomes The Nabokovian.
WCA — Wellesley College Archives.
WL — Nadine Wonlar-Larsky (nee Nabokov). The Russia That I Loved. London: Elsie McSwinney, 1937.
Yale — Beinecke Library, Yale University.