Lolita
$4,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
Olympia Press. 2 volumes. With provenance. 8vo, Publisher s green, white, and black printed wrappers, joints and spine tips rubbed. Vol. 1 with tape mend at top corner of front wrapper on recto and verso and lacking front flyleaf. Vol. 2 rear wrapper with hard crease and small abrasion. Ownership signature on Vol. 2 front flyleaf by noted American poet and critic, Lloyd Frankenberg, recipient of the 1938 Spenser award, a 1940 Guggenheim Foundation fellow, a 1942 Carnegie grant, the 1947 Academy Arts and Letters award, a 1942 Rockefeller Foundation fellow, and a member the poetry jury for the National Book Award. Both volumes are First Edition, First Issue, with unobscured printed price of 900 Francs on the rear of each volume. Kearney 16; Juliar A28.1.1. In archival sleeve. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1955.
- Publisher: Olympia Press
- Year: 1955
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: paperback
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