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…

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