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Paris: Olympia Press, 1955. First edition. 188, [2]; [3]-223, [1] pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Green printed wrappers, priced Francs : 900 on back wrappers. Spines toned, lower portion of spine of first volume worn with small loss. Dated 1.X.1955 on the flyleaf of volume I in an unknown hand. Very good. Morocco backed slipcase, cloth chemises. First edition. 188, [2]; [3]-223, [1] pp. 2 vols. 12mo. The Nabokov Cousins: 'Lolita' Signed. This copy with ownership signatures of composer and cosmopolitan Nicolas Nabokov (1903-1978) on the flyleaf of each volume. With the signature of his first cousin the author on the flyleaf of the first volume: "Vladimir". The cousins got to know each other when the aristocratic Nabokov family arrived in Yalta in the aftermath of the Bolshevik coup, and their paths crossed repeatedly during their new lives in exile. Vladimir invented himself as one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century; Nicolas pursued his musical studies and achieved renown as a composer.… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First Edition. A monumental association copy of Nabokov's own adaptation for the film version of his 1955 novel. The recipient, Irving Paul Lazar (1907-1933), was a legendary talent agent and dealmaker who represented both the Hollywood elite, and a stable of authors that included Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Larry McMurtry, William Saroyan, and others. In July of 1959, Nabokov was approached by Stanley Kubrick and James Harris, who had acquired the film rights to Lolita, to write the screenplay. Over the next year, he painstakingly wrote and re-wrote the screenplay until delivering his 400pp draft to Kubrick and Harris in the summer of 1960. "At one point, Kubrick told Nabokov that the screenplay was "much too unwieldy, contained too many unnecessary episodes, and would take about seven hours to run." Nabokov put the screenplay on a crash diet and submitted his final version on 8-Sep-1960. Harris and Kubrick called it the… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. First edition, early impression of Nabokov's lyrical masterwork. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Vladimir Nabokov on the half-title page with an additional drawing of a butterfly. An accomplished lepidopterist, Nabokov only included butterfly drawings in books presented to those especially important to him. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Author photograph by Maclean Damcron. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed. "Brilliant One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year" (New York Times). "Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind, for Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce. Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never… Read More

Paris: The Olympia Press,, 1955. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins First edition, first impression, first issue, of one of the most notorious and controversial banned books of the 20th century, decried as "disgusting... highbrow pornography" (Prescott, The New York Times) and lauded as "a small masterpiece, an almost perfect comic novel" (Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times). Lolita was originally published with "Francs : 900" printed on the rear covers, but a sudden currency fluctuation at the time of publication meant that the books had to be re-priced to 1,200 francs. Copies of the first issue appear either without a price change, as here, or with the bookseller's hand-written correction. The second issue appeared with the publisher's overprice sticker on the rear covers. Kingsley Amis, writing for The Spectator in 1959, remarked on the almost immediate cult-status of the novel: "Few books published in this country since the King James Bible can have set up more eager expectation than Lolita,… Read More

Paris: The Olympia Press,, 1955. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins First edition, first impression, first issue, of one of the most notorious and controversial banned books of the 20th century, decried as "disgusting... highbrow pornography" (Prescott, The New York Times) and lauded as "a small masterpiece, an almost perfect comic novel" (Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times). Lolita was originally published with "Francs : 900" printed on the rear covers, but a sudden currency fluctuation at the time of publication meant that the books had to be re-priced to 1,200 francs. Copies of the first issue appear either without a price change, as here, or with the bookseller's hand-written correction. The second issue appeared with the publisher's overprice sticker on the rear covers. Kingsley Amis, writing for The Spectator in 1959, remarked on the almost immediate cult status of the novel: "Few books published in this country since the King James Bible can have set up more eager expectation than Lolita,… Read More

Paris: Gallimard, 1959. Fine. Gallimard, Paris 1959, 14,5x21cm, broché. - Édition originale de la traduction française, un des 86 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin pur fil, seuls grands papiers. Très bel exemplaire très recherché. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Gallimard | Paris 1959 | 14,5 x 21 cm | in original wrappers First edition of the French translation, one of 86 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1955. First. paperback. near fine. 2 volumes. 12mo, original printed green wrappers (some minor rubbing and crinkling on spine; professional repairs to rear corners of first volume and cover of second volume). Paris: Olympia Press, (1955). First edition. An clean tight pair, protected in a sculpted green cloth clamshell case with leather spine label.<br/> <br/> Nabokov's masterpiece. First issue, with the 900 franc price on both volumes.<br/> <br/>

Paris: The Olympia Press,, 1955. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins First edition, first impression, first issue, of one of the most notorious and controversial banned books of the 20th century, decried as "disgusting... highbrow pornography" (Prescott, The New York Times) and lauded as "a small masterpiece, an almost perfect comic novel" (Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times). Lolita was originally published with "Francs : 900" printed on the rear covers, but a sudden currency fluctuation at the time of publication meant that the books had to be re-priced to 1,200 francs. Copies of the first issue appear either without a price change, as here, or with the bookseller's hand-written correction. The second issue appeared with the publisher's overprice sticker on the rear covers. In this copy, the price of the second volume is untouched, and the price of the first volume has been lightly inked over in blank, but with no corrected price added, meaning this is likely to be some later marking, and not… Read More

Paris, The Olympia Press, 1955. . First edition, second issue; 2 vols, 8vo; publisher's green, white and black printed wrappers, light wear to spine tips and corners, faint finger soiling to rear wrappers, one corner crease, with the stickers (chipped on vol.II) altering the price to '1200 Francs' affixed to the rear covers, a very good set. Nabokov's controversial novel was rejected by American publishers, but was finally accepted by the avant-garde Olympia Press in Paris and published in this two-volume edition. The novel was first brought to a wider English public by Graham Greene who selected it as one of his books of the year in an article in the Sunday Times newspaper. In 1956, John Gordon, editor of the Sunday Express, responded by calling it 'the filthiest book I have ever read. Sheer unrestrained pornography', thus ensuring its enduring notoriety, and a ban in America and Britain until 1958.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. First edition of Nabokov's masterpiece, published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1955. First issue with the price of 900 francs on the rear panel of each volume. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green wrappers. In very good condition with light rubbing, some toning to the extremities. Ownership names and newspaper clipping tipped in. "Brilliant One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year" (New York Times). "Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind, for Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce. Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human… Read More

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.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. Full Description: NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. Paris: The Olympia Press, [1955]. First edition. Two small octavo volumes (7 x 4 3/8 inches; 177 x 110 mm). [2, blank except for signature mark], [6], 7-10, 13-188, [1, blank], [1, printer's imprint], [2, blank]; [2, blank except for signature mark], [6], 9-223, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Original green printed wrappers. With "Francs: 900" on back covers of each volumes, however evidence of sticker removal over the "Francs: 900" on Volume I. No evidence of anything removed from Volume II. Wrappers printed in black and white. Spines a bit wrinkled. A bit of very minor flaking to heads and tails of spines. Some minot rubbing along spines. Volume I with front outer corners a bit creased and flaking. Volume II with a small chip along bottom of front wrapper. Some pencil marking to back wrappers of each volume. Otherwise an about fine copy of this high spot of twentieth-century literature. Housed in a custom quarter green… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955 First printing of the first American edition: black cloth-backed gray patterned boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the red endpapers, and red top-stain, in original first issue jacket without the "Complete Unexpurgated Edition" statement on the front panel and with the original price of $5.00 listed on the inside front flap. A light bump to upper back corner, else book in fine condition; original dust jacket with a couple tiny closed tears at spine ends, light creasing to upper back cover and upper back spine fold, light creasing near center of bottom back cover, faint creasing near front spine folds, and faint soiling to front cover, else fine. A lovely copy with minimal flaws!

Paris: Olympia Press, 1955. First. softcover. Very good.. A very good first edition, two volumes, with the first issue 900 franc price on the back covers. Half inch corner triangle missing from top right corner of front cover. Rear cover of second volume partially separating at the spine. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case.

Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library, 1983. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. Complete set of the First Edition Library's "Published in Paris" Banned Books series, including Ulysses by James Joyce, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.. [Three volumes]. High quality facsimiles, with almost identical weight, size, fonts, art, wrappers, and texture to the true first editions. Lolita printed in two volumes with green paper wraps. Tropic of Cancer in illustrated paper wraps, with facsimile "For Subscription Only" band around middle of book. Ulysses in blue paper wraps with title in black on front cover. All with a touch of wear to corners of wraps, a fine set. This set was available to subscribers only, and includes the publisher's pamphlet with information on each book's creation, initial publication, and reception from audiences worldwide. Housed in matching cloth clamshells, titles listed in gilt on green morocco labels affixed to spines. Due to varying degrees of graphic… Read More

Paris: OLYMPIA PRESS. Very Good. 1955 verso. first edition". Paperback. 4x7". First edition, first issue, with the original price ("Francs: 900") printed on lower cover of each volume 1 AND AN ORIGINAL 1X2" WHITE STICKER TO BACK OF VOL 2.."NEW PRICE FRANCS 1.200 PER VOLUME....OLYMPIA PRESS" small 1/8" corner chip to that paper notice, else complete. VERY GOOD Condition, clean, solid copies. Vol 1 shows small bit of that label was removed in past) else both volumes are close to new. PAGES 11 AND 12 OF VOL.I ABSENT FROM PAGINATION, AS ISSUED...Covers state "THE OLYMPIA PRESS" on 3 Individual lines,..centered..not on 2 lines . Title page has "THE OLYMPIA PRESS--- 8,Rue de Nesle, Paris 6 e" on 2 lines.. WHITE SPINE STRIP HAS SINGLE asterisk * BOTTOM SPINE of VOLUME 2 HAS 2 ASTERISKS (**); Volume One has white endpaper with *1...That page is followed by 3 sheets and text begins with page numbered 7....... Volume Two has **1… Read More

(Jerusalem: Printed in Israel for The Olympia Press by Steimatzky's Agency, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Israeli edition, and the first hardcover edition (there was also a wrappered issue of the Israeli edition). Two volumes in one. Original blue leather-textured papercovered boards in dustwrapper. Offsetting to the front and rear endpapers as usual, small and light stain on rear fly leaf, else near fine in a modestly rubbed, very good dustwrapper with some tanning to the white portion of the spine and a few modest chips. The first hardcover edition; the true first edition was published in Paris in two wrappered volumes. Stamped with the number 1442 on the front flap, Nabokov bibliographer Michael Juliar believes all copies of the Israeli edition were numbered, both hardcover and wrappered. A very uncommon issue of a high spot of modern literature. Nabokov wrote the screenplay for the 1962 Stanley Kubrick film with James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, and Sue Lyon in the title… Read More

New York: Putnam, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine Dust Jacket. Slight wear to the jacket edge and light toning to the spine panel..

Paris: The Olympia Press 1955, 1955. First edition, first issue with the price "Francs: 900" on the lower cover. Two volumes. 179x111mm. pp. 188, [2]; 223, [1]. First volume mispaginated (as issued) so that pp.11/12 appear to be absent but pagination is complete. Original green and white wrappers lettered in black. Spines creased and some wear to head and foot of spine. A scratch mark to upper cover of volume two and some scuffing to joint with upper cover. Slight creasing to corners. Some soiling to edges, stain to bottom corner of pp. 153-175 of volume one, not affecting the text. Overall a good copy of one of the great, albeit most controversial, novels of the twentieth century. One reviewer described it as "the filthiest book I have ever read" while Nabokov himself argued for it as "a serious work of art". The two positions are not, of course, mutually exclusive.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov's masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy on a slip of Lolita, inscribed by Dominique Swain, who played the leader character in the 1997 film bearing the same name to her stepfather, "Dear Martin You're the best second daddy a girl could hope for. I love your outlook on life and am lucky to have been able to look out on and experience life with you. Her's to continuing the adventure! Dominique Swain P.S. You're a better dad than Jeremy Irons, John Travolta, and Nic Cage put together xoxox." The 1997 film adaptation was directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Stephen Schiff. It was the second screen adaptation of Nabokov's novel starring Dominique Swain as Lolita, Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze, and Frank Langella as Clare Quilty. Photograph of Nabokov by Maclean Dameron. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A unique… Read More