LOLITA.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1958.
First American Edition. First printing of the first American edition, Putnam, New York, 1958 (copyright 1955). In publisher’s black cloth-backed linear patterned boards, spine lettered in two-tone gilt stamping, with red endpapers and red top-stain, in original first issue dust jacket with $5.00 price on the inside front flap.
Contents are fresh and clean with a neat previous owner’s signature. Some foxing to boards and light staining to the dust jacket as shown, with shelf wear.
The 1962 Stanley Kubrick film starred James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, and Sue Lyon; Nabokov wrote the screenplay. Jeremy Irons starred in the 1997 Adrian Lyne adaptation.
A modern book collecting and literary cornerstone. Field 0793; Juliar 428.
Item #34321 Price: US$680.00