Book Detail
Literature
Lolita
The Olympia Press, (1955).
12mos.; green wrappers; spines very slightly cocked with some toning and a few tiny scuffs at spine edges. Very good..
First edition. With original 900 franc price printed on bottom panel. Precedes the American edition with several slight variations from the final text of that edition, from a print run that is unknown but generally agreed to have been fewer than 5,000 copies.
Like Ulysses, with which it vies for status as novel of the century, Lolita was first published in Paris, was deemed pornographic by some, and engendered both legal battles and critical controversy before finding a respectable English or American publishing house, and achieving popular success and lasting acclaim. It helped make the iconic green wrappers of the disreputable Olympia Press iconic; in two volumes, as issued.
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