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NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita, London, 1959, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books including L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, 1957, limited edition). (5)
NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita, London, 1959, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books including L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, 1957, limited edition). (5)
NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita, London, 1959, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books including L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, 1957, limited edition). (5)
NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita, London, 1959, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books including L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, 1957, limited edition). (5)
NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita, London, 1959, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books including L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, 1957, limited edition). (5)
NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita, London, 1959, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books including L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, 1957, limited edition). (5)

NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita, London, 1959, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 4 other books including L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, 1957, limited edition). (5)

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NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977).  Lolita. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959. 8vo (197 x 128mm). Half title (a few spots to the half title, title and a few margins). Original black cloth, the spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket by Eric Ayers with price of 21s. unclipped (a little creasing to the head of the backstrip, some light staining to the lower wrapper). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION. Please note that the original dust-jacket has been photographed in its modern protective archival Mylar wrapper, thereby avoiding any risk of damage through its temporary removal. cf. Boxall (Ed.) 1001 Books (2006) p.492-2 (citing the first edition published by the Olympia Press in Paris in 1955): "The first publication of Lolita, by risqué Parisian press Olympia, caused widespread outrage. The violent erotic passion of the novel's protagonist and narrator, Humbert Humbert, for the twelve-year-old Lolita, and the intensity and extent of Humbert's abuse of her, remain genuinely shocking ... It is a mark of its originality and power that, after so many imitations, it remains so troubling, so fresh, and so moving." With 4 other books including two by, or about, the same author, namely, L' Affaire Lolita. Défence de l' Ecrivain (Paris, The Olympia Press, 1957, printed in black and blue, original yellow and blue wrappers, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 250 OF 5,000 COPIES) and Laughter in the Dark (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST U.K. EDITION of a novel which was first published in Russian in 1933); with Radclyffe Hall's The Well of loneliness ... with a Commentary by Havelock Ellis (London, 1928, 8vo, original black cloth, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Saul Bellow's Seize the Day (London, 1957, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST U.K. EDITION). (5)

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