NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Lolita.
Lolita.
Stock Code 120140
London, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1959
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); ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper and residue marks from old tape to front and rear endpapers, otherwise internally clean; publisher's black boards, titles to spine in silver, red topstain, unclipped typographic dustjacket lettered in black on yellow ground, slight residue marks to cloth, jacket a little creased at edges, very good or better; 319, [1]pp.
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