Lolita.

Nabokov (Vladimir)

Lolita.

Description: FIRST ISRAELI EDITION, 892 OF AROUND 2,000 COPIES (the copy number stamped to inside rear-cover), tiny spot at foot of title-page, pp. 223, foolscap 8vo, original wrappers, some very light creasing, the backstrip browned with some light rubbing to joints, very good

Publication Details: Paris [but, Jerusalem]: Olympia Press, 1955 [but 1958]

Notes: An important early edition, the first in a single volume, of the author's controversial masterpiece; the style of the numbering, thought to have been insisted upon as a means of tracking sales, makes the precise limitation uncertain - but numbers as high as 1,808 have been seen, with around half the limitation believed to have been in wrappers (as here) and the remainder in boards.

Bibliography: (Juliar A28.1b)