Lolita.

£550 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books · No longer available

first UK edition, first impression A lovely example of the first UK edition, first impression of the Russian émigré Vladimir Nabokov's (1899-1977) controversial novel Lolita. First published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1955, the decision by Weidenfield and Nicolson to print the book in 1959 cost the MP Nigel Nicolson, one the company's directors, his political career. First UK edition, first impression; 8vo (20.5 x 14 cm); slight spotting to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean; publisher's black boards, titles to spine in silver, red topstain, unclipped typographic dustjacket lettered in black on yellow ground, jacket a little frayed and creased at edges, very good or better; 319, [1]pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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