Lolita (Olympia Press, 1955)

No picture at all. American publishers turned Lolita down, and it first appeared in Paris in September 1955 from the Olympia Press, in two volumes bound in plain green printed wrappers, in a printing of 5,000 copies. The bare cover is the point: this is how the most argued-over novel of the decade first reached readers, years before it was published in America or Britain. First-issue copies show a printed price of 900 francs on the back. This set has the 1,200-franc stickers of the second issue.