first edition Hardcover
1955 · New York
by Nabokov, Vladimir
New York: Putnam, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, priced ($5.00) but clipped at the bottom edge, generally rubbed and lightly soiled, creases throughout, some tidemarks on the verso. Quarter black buckram with zebra striped boards with some toning. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Nabokov's classic and controversial tale about Humbert Humbert's kidnap and rape of Dolores Haze, adapted into the Stanley Kubrick film of the same name. (Inventory #: 7965)