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Vladimir NABOKOV. Lolita. The Traveller's Companion Series, No.66. VOLUME TWO.. Olympia Press, november 1958,, Paris,, 1958.

Price: US$155.62 + shipping

Description: 11x18cm, soft, broché, 223p. 2nd printing. Good condition.

Seller: Librairie Christian Chaboud, Bruxelles, Belgium

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita (first Israeli edition). Olympia Press, 1958.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabkokov. Olympia Press, 1955 (stated but this is the first Israeli edition which was printed in 1958 in small release of about 1800 copies, half of which were with jacket and half with hard boards). Book in very good condition, with name on title page and front endpaper, housed in mylar cover. Very collectible copy that has the honour of being the first single volume edition of Nakobov's masterpiece.

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1958.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Second Printing, November 1958 stated. Publisher's original green wrappers, priced at 2400 Francs. No. 66 in the Traveller's Companion Series. Two volumes, Very Good, wear to bottom of Vol. II at bottom of spine with some paper loss and curling. light edgewear. Vol. I with 1 page top corner creased. Basis for Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film starring James Mason and Shelley Winters, for which Vladimir Nabokov received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. SCARCE in either of the first two printings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

Nabokov, Vladimir.. Lolita.. Paris, The Olympia Press, 1958.

Price: US$1055.97 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 188 S., [1] Bl.; 223 S. Erste Ausgabe in zweitem Druck von Nabokovs berühmten und von ihm selbst hochgeschätzten Roman. Neben Joyce' Ulysses das provokanteste literarische Werk des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nabokov nannte das Werk eine "Liebeserklärung" an die englische Sprache, und der ästhetische Genuß dieser erklärten Liebe ist ungleich größer und dauerhafter als das längst nicht mehr so Skandalöse seiner Handlung. Das reduzierte und trivialisierte Bild des frühreifen verführerischen Mädchens, das man mit der sprichwörtlich gewordenen Lolita gewöhnlich verbindet, entspringt der verengten Sichtweise auf das Skandalträchtige des Romans, wird seiner Vielschichtigkeit und Komplexität aber nicht gerecht. Das gilt nicht nur für die Kindfrau Dolores alias Lolita, sondern eher noch für die mehrdimensionale Hauptfigur, den pädophilen Ich-Erzähler Humbert Humbert. - Nachdem fünf Verlage in den USA eine Veröffentlichung abgelehnt hatten, bekam Nabokov von dem kleinen französischen Verlag Olympia Press eine Zusage. Daß dieser Verlag auf die Veröffentlichung englischsprachiger Erotica spezialisiert war, erfuhr Nabokov erst nach der Vertragsunterzeichnung. Die kleine Auflage war in kurzer Zeit ausverkauft. Die erste amerikanische Ausgabe konnte wegen der Zensur und unklarer Rechtsverhältnisse erst drei Jahre später, am 18. August 1958 erscheinen. Bereits sechs Wochen danach stand Lolita auf Platz Eins der amerikanischen Bestsellerlisten. "Brilliant One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year" (New York Times). "Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind, for Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce. Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy" (Atlantic Monthly). "The novel became the basis for the 1962 Stanley Kubrick film starring James Mason and Peter Sellers." ebd. Die sehr empfindlichen Originalbroschuren an den Kanten etwas berieben, das obere Kapital von Band eins mit kleinen Fehlstellen, insgesamt aber außergewöhnlich wohlerhalten. Die äußerst empfindlichen Originalbroschuren in sehr guten, nur minimalst beriebenen und wohl ungelesenen Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 4500 Kl.- Oktavo. Farbig bedruckte Original-Broschuren.

Seller: Antiquariat Michael Solder, Münster, NRW, Germany

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita (True First Hardcover Printing). The Olympia Press, 1958.

Price: US$1105.14 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first impression (thus) - the true first hardcover issue and the first issue as a single volume; printed by Steimatzky's Agency of Jerusalem for The Olympia Press (first printed in wrappers, and as two volumes, by Olympia in Paris in 1955). Less than 1500 copies were produced by Steimatzky, split between hardcover and wrappers, with each numbered - this copy is stamped 757 to the foot of the front dustwrapper flap. Near Fine+: tight and square binding in sharp and clean blue Rexene boards; bright gilt lettering; tanned to the edge of the page block; some offsetting to the endpapers; bookseller's label to the foot of the front pastedown; very bright, crisp and clean pages, free of marks, inscriptions and foxing. The unclipped (and unpriced) dustwrapper is Very Good+: vibrant, green colouring; tanning to the title label to the spine; soft vertical crease adjacent to the front gutter; 1.5cm closed tear to the head of the front spine fold; modest edgewear; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. A lovely example of a scarce edition. All orders are sent carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.

Seller: Bradhurst Fine Editions, Framlingham, United Kingdom

Nabokov, Vladimir [1899-1977]. Lolita. Printed in Israel for The Olympia Press 7, Rue Saint-Séverin, Paris First Israeli Edition [] 1958., 1958.

Price: US$1625.21 + shipping

Description: Two volumes in one first Israeli edition hard back binding in publisher's original dark navy leather textured paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 4½''. Contains 190; 223 printed pages of text. There were apparently 1000 numbered copies printed [ours bears the number 137 on the inside front flap] of which half were issued in wrappers the rest as here in boards. A little ghosting to the end papers and one vertical faint tape shadow line to the lower paste down where the dust wrapper has been protected in brown paper and secured, now removed. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with a tear to the front fore edge, tanning of the paper to the spine and edges of the flaps, tiny flaked chips to the spine tips, priced 7.500 in pencil to the rear panel. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom