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Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. A married pair of the two volumes of the true first edition, both in original printed wrappers. Volume One has "Francs 900" on the rear panel. Pages are dampstained within the rear half of the textblock and rear wrap somewhat rippled. There is a light stain along the edge of the ffe. There are also a couple of tiny chips at the bottom of rear covers and slight loss to the bottom right corner of the front cover. Volume II has two obvious chips on the side edge of the front cover. There is a slight lean to spine and paper surface along spine edges is worn . With the printed price of Francs 900 lower right corner rear cover blocked out by pencil with the new price of 1200 penciled in. Neither volume has any names, inscriptions or bookplates. One of the bold high spots of 20thC literature. Nabokov wrote the screenplay for the 1962 Stanley Kubrick film with James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, and Sue Lyon in the…

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

For the first print run by Olympia Press, two volumes were produced. Look for 'The Olympia Press, Paris' on the title page, '1955' on the copyright page, and absence of any further printings mentioned.