Live auction - Lot 741
Lolita. Part one [- two].
Paris, The Olympia Press, April 1959
Hammer price: €
50
€ 80 / 100
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: 221-[1], 189-[3] pp. (traces of reading, spine wrinkled, a few sm. stains or spots).
Original green printed wrappers. Good copy.
First edition, third printing, of one of the most celebrated books in modern literature. Nabokov’s Lolita quickly attained classic status upon publication in 1955. Notable for its controversial subject, the novel was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962. This printing was published as n. 66 in "The Traveler’s Companion" series.
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