Lolita.

"LIGHT OF MY LIFE, FIRE OF MY LOINS": FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA; Signed by Him

Lolita.

NABOKOV, Vladimir.

Item Number: 18999

Paris: Olympia Press, 1955.

First edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece, published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1955. First issue with the price of 900 francs on the rear panel of each volume. Signed by Vladimir Nabokov on the front free endpaper of volume one. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green wrappers. In near fine condition with light wear to the extremities. Exceptionally rare signed.

"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 farceLolita 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).

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