NABOKOV VLADIMIR Lolita

Sale 2332 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 7,800

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. Lolita. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, publisher's green, white, and black printed wrappers, clean and bright with no soiling or staining; internally free from any markings, very uncommon in such fine condition; preserved in cloth slipcase with lettering label, and chemise. Paris: The Olympia Press, (1955)

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first edition, first issue of nabokov's masterpiece with unobscured printed price of 900 Francs on each volume. Lolita was not published in the U.S. and the U.K. until 1959. A superlative example. Kearney 16; Juliar A28.1.1.