1955, LOLITA, NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.

Book Description: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1955. Cloth. Book Condition: Good +++ in a Good DJ for it's age. First American edition, Sixth Printing. Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book about a middle aged professor's physical infatuation, with an adolescent coquettish girl. Altough now considered a Modern Classic, at the time the American critics voiced a broad variety of reviews running the gamut from humorous to perverse. "It has been described as "Old Europe debauching young America," and as "Young America debauching Old Europe," as "a joke on our national chant about youth," "a cutting expose' of chronic American adolescence and shabby materialism," "a diabolic masterpiece." It was adapted to film in 1962 directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring James Mason, Sue Lyon and Shelley Winters. Gray pattern boards over quarter cloth black spine, gilt title and publisher to spine. Top edge red, with red end papers. DJ not price clipped, pale yellow, black and red lettering, darker yellow decoration behind lettering, "A Novel By The Author of PNIN," stamped to front. Picture of Vladimir Nabokov, and biography to rear dj. Original price of $5.00, "Sixth Printing," to front panel. First Edition, Sixth Issue.  319 pp, 8 vo. Nice clean copy. "Complete Unabridged Edition."

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