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5 December 2012, 10:00 EST
New York

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NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. 1899-1977.

Lolita. Paris: The Olympia Press, [1955].
2 volumes. Original green printed wrappers. Some notes at ends, light creasing to spines and wear to wrapper edges, corner crease to upper cover of vol 2.
Provenance: S.N. Behrman (small note on inside lower cover of vol 2 indicating that it was read in Antibes in May 1956, penciled vocabulary list on blank pages at ends of both volumes).

FIRST EDITION with 900 franc price on both lower wrappers. Lolita was not published in the U.S. and U.K. until 1959.

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