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The Centennial of Birth 1899-1999 St. Petersburg, Symposium, 1997, 672 p. SKUalb134b9c32dc9babf3.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. Fourth Printing. Stiff Paper Wraps. Near Fine. Small 12mo. Pp. 189; 221. Text preceded by a "Publisher's Digression." Printed September 1959. Titles and decorative borders printed in green and black on the cover and spine, perfect bound, title page in black and green. Volume 1 spine minimally sunned, back cover price overstamped "New Price 6 NF 2 vols." Maurice Girodias's "Digression" concerning censorship of the novel he was first to publish initially appeared in the third printing of April 1959. Superbly well preserved.

France: The Olympia Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; Third Printing. Softcover. The books both have rubbing and toning overall, brief foxing to the page edges, and creases down the spine. Volume II has a brief bump to the fore-edge. Photos on request. International shipping billed at cost. ; The Traveller's Companion Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. 3rd Printing. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good. 190pp. + 2pp. ads; 223pp. "Publisher's Digression" in Volume I. Green border on title page. Originally published by the Olympia Press in 1955, later reprinted as No. 66 in the Traveller's Companion series. Kearney 5.66.3.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. First edition. Near Fine. True first issue of both volumes with the price of 900 Francs printed on the back of each cover. A Near Fine set with the spine a trifle toned, but otherwise clean, fresh copies, appearing unread. Volume 2 with a slight paper flaw affecting one gathering where it looks like the pages bound in have a slight uncut edge (but this appears to be a bindery issue). Housed in a custom clamshell case. This controversial novel is frequently on the list of top books from the past century. Originally released in France because American publishers were wary of such "obscene" material, Lolita tangles sexual taboo and violence with incredibly seductive prose. "Shocking is the reaction the author somehow manages to elicit from his readers: empathy. Readers always read, I think, out of a tremendous curiosity about other human beings, we're looking for another soul on the page, and that's what Nabokov has so fearlessly, so complexly, so gorgeously given us.… Read More